NCBI E-utilities MCP
An MCP server that provides federated access to NCBI Entrez databases including PubMed, Gene, and GEO. It enables agents to search, fetch summaries, retrieve full records, and link across biological databases using eight specific tools like esearch, efetch, and geo_search.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
What you can do with it
- Search PubMed for articles by query term
- Fetch full records in XML or FASTA format
- Look up GEO expression series by accession
- Link entities across NCBI databases
Source and maintenance
- Last repository push
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
@pipeworx/mcp-ncbi-eutils 0.2.0
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "@pipeworx/mcp-ncbi-eutils",
"registryType": "npm",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "PIPEWORX_API_KEY",
"description": "Optional Pipeworx API key. Without it calls are anonymous and capped daily; a free key raises the cap."
}
]
}Tools
Reported by the attributed source; not independently observed by Koskamo.
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
- · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown
Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
Cursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-e-utilities-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-ncbi-eutils@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-e-utilities-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-ncbi-eutils@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"ncbi-e-utilities-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-ncbi-eutils@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-e-utilities-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-ncbi-eutils@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
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