He is a project professor at Kyoto University, technical director of Pathway Solutions Inc and president of NPO Bioinformatics Japan.
[5] Kanehisa studied at the University of Tokyo, gaining his Doctor of Science degree in physics in 1976.
[6] While at Los Alamos, he was one of the developers of the GenBank database of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations.
[8][9] Foreseeing the need for a computerized resource that can be used for biological interpretation of genome sequence data, he started developing the KEGG PATHWAY database.
It is a collection of manually drawn KEGG pathway maps representing experimental knowledge on metabolism and various other functions of the cell and the organism.