Hi,

Some bioconductor packages like GSEA or GOStats that additionally to GO are
designed to measure gene set enrichment using KEGG pathways, still work and
give results even after the new paid license and subscription like we all
know the story.

My question can be discussed in two different ways, I am wondering how
people developing these packages are doing ? Does thes packages call KEGG
directly or an image of it, if this is the second case how a user can be
sure about the KEGG version used ?

The second part of my question concerns the development of other packages
for gene set enrichment, do you expect this kind of packages decreasing in
the coming few years due to KEGG privatization ? if now, how can we ( for
late people like me) download an image of KEGG database corresponding to a
version existing before privatization, as it was in public domain it is not
going against the new license rules to distribute it.

Regards

Radhouane


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*Radhouane Aniba*
*Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Research Scientist*
*Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology* *(CBCB)*
*University of Maryland, College Park
MD 20742*

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