PubMed
Searches and retrieves academic literature from NCBI PubMed database with advanced filtering, citation formatting, and research analysis capabilities.
Integrates PubMed data for searching and fetching biomedical literature, enabling dynamic querying and analysis of scientific information.
What it does
- Search PubMed with complex filters and MeSH terms
- Retrieve article details and abstracts by PMID
- Format citations in multiple styles (BibTeX, APA, MLA, etc.)
- Find articles by specific authors
- Analyze publication trends over time
- Compare multiple articles side by side
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About PubMed
PubMed is a community-built MCP server published by grll that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Search and analyze biomedical literature with PubMed integration. Access entre pubmed data for dynamic scientific queryi It is categorized under search web.
How to install
You can install PubMed in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
PubMed is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
PubMed MCP
A MCP server that allows to search and fetch articles from PubMed.
PubMed is a database of over 35 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
This MCP server relies on the pubmedclient Python package to perform the search and fetch operations.
Usage
Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pubmedmcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["pubmedmcp@latest"],
"env": {
"UV_PRERELEASE": "allow",
"UV_PYTHON": "3.12"
}
}
}
}
Make sure uv is installed on your system and 'uvx' is available in your PATH (claude PATH sometimes is not the same as your system PATH).
You can add a PATH key in your claude_desktop_config.json file to make sure uv is available in claude PATH.
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