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DimensionPubmed MCP ServerSearch PubMed and Europe PMC biomedical literature via MCP.BioMCPOne binary. One grammar. Evidence from the biomedical sources you already trust.
FMRS65 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2010 / 20
Security and permissions13 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2018 / 20
Documentation16 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2014 / 20
Best for
  • Researchers and biomedical agents needing programmatic PubMed or Europe PMC access
  • Workflows requiring structured literature metadata, full text, and citation output
  • Literature-management tasks involving DOI, PMID, and PMCID identifiers
  • Biomedical researchers
  • Clinicians
  • AI agents that need efficient access to biomedical literature and data analysis
Not for
  • Users seeking searches across non-biomedical databases
  • Workflows requiring guaranteed full-text availability for every article
  • Users that need this server to be treated as an official PubMed or NCBI server
  • Users needing to write to upstream databases (read-only)
  • Users requiring direct access to closed datasets (e.g., COSMIC is not directly integrated)
  • Users expecting all advanced features without API keys
Required permissions
  • The server needs access to NCBI services; Europe PMC access is needed when Europe PMC features are enabled.
  • Full-text fallback through Unpaywall requires UNPAYWALL_EMAIL and access to Unpaywall.
  • API keys and contact emails are optional; NCBI_API_KEY can increase the NCBI rate limit.
  • Streamable HTTP deployments can use none, jwt, or oauth authentication; the default is none.
  • Requires internet access to query public biomedical APIs
  • Optional API keys (NCBI, Semantic Scholar, OpenFDA, etc.) to improve rate limits or unlock features
  • Local read/write access for skills, cache, and local study data (e.g., `~/.local/share/biomcp`)
Risks and side effects
  • Full-text retrieval depends on PMC, Europe PMC, or legal open-access sources and may return unavailable or truncated results.
  • Unpaywall results may include best-effort warnings and may be returned as HTML Markdown or PDF text.
  • The source does not provide further details about authentication or availability of the public hosted instance.
  • NCBI and Europe PMC requests are affected by rate limits, timeouts, and retry settings.
  • Upstream API rate limits may affect performance
  • Some data sources (e.g., KEGG) have licensing terms that restrict non-academic use
  • Features requiring API keys (e.g., OncoKB) may be incomplete without them
  • Local binary installations need regular updates for compatibility
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Other MCP stdio clients
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