Forum:What are the advantages of purchsing KEGG FTP access over public resources?

Question

[Naren]

Hello,

Our lab can manage to purchase KEGG ftp access for 1 year. We mostly work on microbial genomics and metagenomics. I wonder what would be the added benefit of investing in this. What are the features that public resource of KEGG do not provide?

[GenoMax]

For starters it is my understanding that only subscribers get access to the FTP site at KEGG which allows bulk download of data.