PubMed MCP

MCPOpen SourceMIT10.0

by huanongfish • Search & Retrieval

An MCP server that enables agents to search and fetch PubMed articles and citations programmatically.

Example Use Cases

1
Search PubMed for relevant biomedical articles and return matching citation lists.
2
Fetch full article metadata or records from PubMed for downstream processing or summarization.
3
Integrate literature retrieval into workflows (e.g., evidence gathering, citation extraction, or literature-based QA).

Description

This MCP server provides a bridge for agents to perform PubMed search and fetch operations using the pubmedclient Python package. It simplifies integrating biomedical literature retrieval into agent workflows by exposing search/fetch functionality as an MCP service. The README includes configuration guidance for running the server with uvx and a specified Python runtime. No paid tiers or external website are referenced in the repository documentation.

Capabilities(1 total)

Tools (1)

search_abstracts

Search abstracts on PubMed database based on the request parameters. While it returns a free-form text in practice this is a list of strings containing: * the title of the article * the abstract content * the authors * the journal name * the publication date * the DOI * the PMID Args: request: SearchAbstractsRequest

request:any*

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Risk Level

MINIMAL

Read-only data retrieval, no side effects

Trust Score

C56/100

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Service TypeMCP

Pricing ModelFree

Capabilities1 Tools / 0 Prompts / 0 Resources

Ownerhuanongfish

CategorySearch & Retrieval

DependenciesStandalone

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