What is MCP Simple PubMed?
MCP Simple PubMed is an MCP server that provides access to PubMed articles and abstracts through the Entrez API. It is intended for researchers, clinicians, and AI assistants needing to search biomedical literature.
How to use MCP Simple PubMed?
Install via pip install mcp-simple-pubmed or automatically via Smithery with npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-simple-pubmed --client claude. Set environment variables PUBMED_EMAIL (required) and optionally PUBMED_API_KEY. Then add the server configuration to your Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json specifying the Python module mcp_simple_pubmed.
Key features of MCP Simple PubMed
- Search PubMed using keywords, MeSH terms, author names, and Boolean operators.
- Retrieve full text for open-access articles in PubMed Central.
- Access article abstracts and metadata via resource URIs.
- Pre-built MCP prompts for systematic reviews, PICO searches, and author searches.
- Returns an XML-ized version of full text for structured readability by AI.
Use cases of MCP Simple PubMed
- Conduct systematic literature reviews with comprehensive search strategies.
- Build clinical PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) queries.
- Find all publications by a specific author with correct name formatting.
- Retrieve abstracts and metadata for research or evidence synthesis.
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