Commercial Licensing

Kanehisa Laboratories owns and controls the rights to KEGG. Although the KEGG database is made freely available for academic use via the website, it is not in the public domain. All commercial use of KEGG requires a license. Pathway Solutions is the exclusive worldwide licensing agent for KEGG and provides the following licenses:

End User License

• For end consumers of KEGG
• Intended for internal research and development only
• Includes access rights to the KEGG FTP site for commercial users (the content is identical to the KEGG FTP site for academic users) and the KEGG website

Business License (for customers outside of Japan)

• For businesses who assist end users (commercial end users with valid end user licenses or academic end users) by providing products or services
• Includes access rights to the KEGG FTP site

Web Service License (for customers within Japan, see description in Japanese)

• For businesses who assist end users by providing products or services
• Includes API access or download rights to a limited set of KEGG data

Please email us at licensing@pathway.jp for more information