NCBI Datasets — the US National Library of Medicine's genome, gene and taxonomy reference service: which assemblies exist for an organism and how good they are, where a gene sits on the genome and what it is called everywhere else, and the NCBI taxonomy tree with per-node assembly and gene counts.
Setup
Choose your client, copy the config, then fill in any required environment variables.
claude mcp add --transport http ncbi-datasets https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.ncbi-datasets]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp"
# codex mcp add ncbi-datasets --url https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-datasets": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"ncbi-datasets": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp"
}
}
}~/.gemini/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-datasets": {
"httpUrl": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp"
}
}
}claude_desktop_config.json · Customize › Connectors › Add custom connector
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-datasets": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote",
"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp"
]
}
}
}.trae/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncbi-datasets": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ncbi-datasets/mcp"
}
}
}