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Search and retrieve PubMed, protein, and nucleotide data from NCBI databases.
This MCP tool is described as providing access to the NCBI E-utilities API, with a relatively clear functional scope and open-source MIT licensing. No credential requirement or obvious overreach is evident, but it does run locally and perform outbound network requests, while community adoption and maintenance signals are weak, so it should be used in a constrained environment.
The materials indicate no required keys or environment variables, and there is no request for API tokens, account credentials, or other sensitive authentication data, so credential exposure and abuse risk appears low.
The description explicitly says it accesses the NCBI E-utilities API to retrieve data from databases such as PubMed, Protein, and Nucleotide; this implies outbound transmission of query content to NCBI-related remote services. This is normal for its stated purpose, but users should avoid sending unnecessary sensitive text.
The system checks indicate that this tool executes code, meaning it runs locally as an MCP service process. This is a normal MCP capability; the provided materials do not show requests for unusually dangerous system privileges beyond its stated purpose.
The materials only describe access to NCBI database search/retrieval functions and do not mention reading or writing local files, accessing system directories, or persisting user data. Based on the available information, no obvious excessive data-access scope is shown.
The tool has a public GitHub repository and an MIT open-source license, which are meaningful risk-reducing factors because the code is auditable. However, it comes from a third-party registry, has 0 stars, and has unknown maintenance status, so supply-chain confidence is only moderate; reviewing the source and pinning dependencies is advisable.
Copy the install command and let the AI configure it · recommended for beginners
No copy-paste install info for "ncbi-mcp" yet — see the docs or source repo.
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A PMID-linked list of nucleotide records suitable for downstream analysis or download.
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