What is BioMCP?
BioMCP is a command-line and MCP server tool that unifies search and retrieval across dozens of biomedical sources (PubTator3, Europe PMC, ClinVar, UniProt, etc.) behind a single grammar. It is designed for researchers, clinicians, and AI agents who need compact, evidence-oriented results without rebuilding workflows for each source.
How to use BioMCP?
Install the biomcp binary via the install script or uv tool install biomcp-cli, then run biomcp serve to start the MCP stdio server. Use commands such as search, get, suggest, enrich, batch, or study directly in the terminal, or register the server with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Codex. Optional API keys improve rate limits and unlock additional data.
Key features of BioMCP
- Search literature across PubTator3, Europe PMC, and Semantic Scholar
- Pivot between genes, variants, drugs, diseases, and more
- Route questions to shipped worked examples with
suggest
- Analyze local study datasets with native terminal charts
- Follow paper trails with citations, references, and recommendations
- Enrich gene sets via g:Profiler and batch multiple focused queries
Use cases of BioMCP
- Literature discovery: search articles by gene and disease filters
- Variant interpretation: get ClinVar, gnomAD, and OncoKB data for a variant
- Drug interaction scanning: query drugs and their adverse events or approvals
- Gene-set enrichment: run enrichment analysis on a list of genes
- Cross-entity pivoting: move from a disease to its known drugs, trials, or articles
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