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DimensionNeo4j Aura Manager MCP ServerManage Neo4j Aura cloud instances in natural languageChEMBL MCP ServerUnofficial MCP server providing advanced access to the ChEMBL chemical database
FMRS45 / 100 · D75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions7 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2014 / 20
Documentation9 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience10 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Developers on Neo4j Aura who want to manage instances through a conversational assistant
  • Teams that need to quickly spin up or clean up test Aura instances
  • Users already running Claude Desktop or another MCP client
  • Drug discovery and computational chemistry researchers
  • Bioinformatics teams needing ChEMBL data through AI assistants
  • Developers comfortable with Node.js or Docker
Not for
  • Users looking for the officially supported Neo4j product MCP server (use neo4j/mcp)
  • Production environments that require SLAs, backwards compatibility commitments, or a stable long-term API
  • Users who do not use Neo4j Aura
  • Production settings requiring official ChEMBL support (this is unofficial)
  • Users without a Node.js or Docker environment
  • General database tasks unrelated to ChEMBL
Required permissions
  • Neo4j Aura API credentials (Client ID and Client Secret) that can create, modify, and delete Aura instances
  • Full administrative access to the user's Aura account
  • Outbound network access to https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/api/data
  • Read-only access to public API data; no authentication credentials required
Risks and side effects
  • The Aura API credentials are highly privileged; if leaked, another party could create, scale, or even delete instances, affecting billing and data availability
  • The model may misinterpret natural language instructions, leading to accidental instance deletion or unexpected scaling costs
  • As a Neo4j Labs experimental project, it may introduce breaking changes or deprecations with no compatibility guarantees
  • An exposed Client Secret in logs or client configuration can leak credentials
  • Unofficial project with license marked NOASSERTION (README claims MIT); verify licensing yourself
  • Data accuracy depends on the ChEMBL REST API and the server's parsing may contain defects
  • 30-second request timeouts may constrain large batch queries
  • README inconsistency on tool count (22 vs 27) raises documentation reliability concerns
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLIClaude Desktop
Tools027