[Bioperl-l] KEGG web API access

[Fields, Christopher J]

It's more than welcome.  Just to point out, there seems to be a python lib to access KEGG using the REST API, might be worth contacting the author or checking the code out to see if they limited it in any way.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keggrest/0.1.1

chris

On Jul 11, 2013, at 11:12 PM, Alexey Morozov <alexeymorozov1991 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gentlemen, I'm writing a little script to get sequences from KEGG DB via
> web-API and maybe will extend it to the whole module. However, API web page
> contains following quote:
> 
> KEGG API is provided for use by academic users for academic purposes. This
> service should not be used for bulk data downloads. Please obtain KEGG FTP
> academic subscription <http://www.kegg.jp/kegg/download/> for downloading
> KEGG data.
> 
> So, I guess, web downloads of sequences are not forbidden, but not exactly
> encouraged either. Can someone please explain whether such module will be
> welcome in bioperl and whether it does in fact violate KEGG's licenses.
> 
> -- 
> Alexey Morozov,
> LIN SB RAS, bioinformatics group.
> Irkutsk, Russia.
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