ncbi-eutils 6 tools

MCP server exposing 6 tools for ncbi-eutils.

Endpoint

This URL is a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint over HTTP. Issue POST requests with a JSON-RPC body. Browsers and search crawlers land here on GET.

POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-eutils/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}

Tools

• einfo — List all available Entrez databases (omit db) or return field definitions and link names for a specific database (e.g. db=pubmed). Use before esearch to discover valid search fields and databases.
• esearch — Search an Entrez database (e.g. pubmed, gene, nucleotide) by query term and return a list of matching UIDs (up to 10,000) with hit count. Supports pagination via retstart and sort (e.g. pub_date).
• esummary — Fetch document summaries for one or more Entrez UIDs in a given database (e.g. pubmed), returning title, authors, journal, and publication date without the full record body.
• efetch — Full records. Returns text (XML/GenBank/FASTA/…) per rettype.
• elink — Links across databases.
• egquery — Global query across all Entrez databases.

Full documentation

Code samples (curl / TypeScript / one-click client install), schemas, and the live playground are on the pack page:
https://pipeworx.io/packs/ncbi-eutils/

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