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DimensionGalaxy MCP ServerMCP server for the Galaxy bioinformatics platformContext7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS61 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions13 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2017 / 20
Documentation14 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Bioinformatics researchers who want AI assistants to operate the Galaxy platform
  • Galaxy instance administrators and regular Galaxy users
  • Teams automating analysis workflows
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Users not on the Galaxy platform
  • Environments without a Galaxy URL and API key
  • General-purpose bioinformatics outside Galaxy
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • Requires the target Galaxy instance URL (GALAXY_URL, required)
  • Requires a Galaxy API key (GALAXY_API_KEY, required and secret; may be omitted when using OAuth)
  • OAuth mode requires a session secret (GALAXY_MCP_SESSION_SECRET) and public URL (GALAXY_MCP_PUBLIC_URL)
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • The API key is a sensitive credential; leakage grants others access to your Galaxy account and analyses
  • Tools and workflows executed by the AI consume Galaxy compute resources
  • Remote HTTP deployment exposes a network port and requires careful OAuth and session-secret configuration
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude DesktopClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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