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uniprot-mcp-server

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Protein research over UniProtKB: search by function, fetch curated records, map IDs, proteomes.

v0.2.6 · active · repository · descriptor JSON · versions

An agent can connect right now, no human step.Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.
Quality84good
Trust94of 100
Uptime, 30 days100%
Latency p50182 ms

Connect

8 clients · secrets stay placeholders
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
claude mcp add --transport http uniprot-mcp-server https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp
[mcp_servers.uniprot-mcp-server]
url = "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  },
  "deeplink": "cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=uniprot-mcp-server&config=eyJ0eXBlIjoiaHR0cCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vdW5pcHJvdC5jYXNleWpoYW5kLmNvbS9tY3AifQ%3D%3D"
}
{
  "servers": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "httpUrl": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
extensions:
  "uniprot-mcp-server":
    enabled: true
    name: "uniprot-mcp-server"
    type: streamable_http
    uri: "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    timeout: 300

Quality 84 / 100good

protocol88 · weight 25
  • pass
    protocol.modernsupports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
  • pass
    protocol.statelessanswers without a session
  • pass
    protocol.transportstreamable HTTP
  • warn
    protocol.list_ttltools/list declares ttlMs 0, so clients re-fetch it on every use
authorizationn/a · weight 15
  • n/a
    auth.prm, auth.as_metadata, auth.cimdno remote uses OAuth
  • n/a
    auth.secret_in_urlno templated URL
tool hygiene79 · weight 30
  • pass
    tools.descriptionsevery tool has a description
  • warn
    tools.description_length1 tools have descriptions over 1,024 characters, which crowds the context
  • pass
    tools.schemasevery tool has an object input schema
  • pass
    tools.annotations6 of 6 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  • fail
    tools.directory_hintsno tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: uniprot_search_proteins (destructiveHint); uniprot_get_entry (destructiveHint); uniprot_map_ids (destructiveHint); …
  • pass
    tools.token_costabout 3,559 tokens to load every tool
  • pass
    tools.api_dumptools are not a one-to-one API dump
stability75 · weight 15
  • warn
    stability.changes6 tool changes in 30 days
  • pass
    stability.rug_pullno tool changed its meaning under the same name
dependencies100 · weight 15
  • pass
    deps.known_vulnsno known advisory in 74 resolved packages
  • pass
    deps.mcp_sdk_version@modelcontextprotocol/core 2.3.1, no known advisory
  • pass
    deps.resolvable@cyanheads/[email protected], @cyanheads/[email protected] resolved: 74 packages

6 tools, about 3,559 tokens to load them all · tool set b93cd49b8b2a · tools last changed 2026-10-13 · checked 2026-10-20 22:23 UTC

Tool changes

  • uniprot_get_sequencechangeddescription, output schema
    before

    Fetch the canonical amino-acid sequence (FASTA) for a UniProtKB accession, with length and the parsed header. Set include_isoforms to also return the alternatively-spliced isoform sequences. This is the cheap sequence-only path — for the full functional record use uniprot_get_entry. Accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins or uniprot_map_ids; strip any "-N" isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.

    after · 73% of words in common

    Fetch the canonical amino-acid sequence (FASTA) for a UniProtKB accession, with length and the parsed header. Set include_isoforms to also return the alternatively-spliced isoform sequences. This is the cheap sequence-only path — for the full functional record use uniprot_get_entry. A merged accession returns the sequences of its merge target, labelled with the target accession and the requested one in mergedFrom; a demerged or deleted accession fails not_found naming its replacements or UniParc ID. Accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins or uniprot_map_ids; strip any "-N" isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.

  • uniprot_get_taxonomychangeddescription, input schema, output schema
    before

    Resolve a taxonomy record by NCBI taxon ID (e.g. 9606) or scientific name (e.g. "Homo sapiens") — provide exactly one. Returns the scientific and common name, mnemonic, rank, parent, and the full lineage. Set include_children to also fetch immediate child taxa (a separate lookup — not inline on the record). Use this to turn an organism name into the taxon ID that uniprot_search_proteins (organism_id) and uniprot_get_proteome (taxon_id) expect.

    after · 79% of words in common

    Resolve a taxonomy record by NCBI taxon ID (e.g. 9606) or scientific name (e.g. "Homo sapiens") — provide exactly one. Returns the scientific and common name, mnemonic, rank, parent, and the full lineage. Set include_children to also fetch immediate child taxa (a separate lookup — not inline on the record) in pages of 100 with the total child count; when more remain, pass the returned cursor to fetch the next page. Use this to turn an organism name into the taxon ID that uniprot_search_proteins (organism_id) and uniprot_get_proteome (taxon_id) expect.

  • uniprot_get_proteomechangedoutput schema
  • uniprot_map_idschangeddescription, input schema, output schema
    before

    Translate identifiers across databases via UniProt's ID-mapping service — gene names to accessions, accession to PDB / Ensembl / RefSeq / ChEMBL / GeneID, and back. The job runs asynchronously; this tool submits it and polls within a budget. A running job returns status "running" with a ticket; pass that ticket alone to poll the same job. A completed call returns status "finished" with one results page; when continuation is present, pass it alone to fetch the next completed page without re-submitting or polling the job. A gene name often maps to one reviewed Swiss-Prot accession plus dozens of unreviewed TrEMBL ones, so target UniProtKB-Swiss-Prot (reviewed only) for the usual intent, or UniProtKB / UniProtKB_AC-ID to include TrEMBL. Pair a gene-symbol from_db with tax_id to disambiguate species. Chain the resulting accessions into uniprot_get_entry.

    after · 87% of words in common

    Translate identifiers across databases via UniProt's ID-mapping service — gene names to accessions, accession to PDB / Ensembl / RefSeq / ChEMBL / GeneID, and back. The job runs asynchronously; this tool submits it and polls within a budget. A running job returns status "running" with a ticket; pass that ticket alone to poll the same job. A completed call returns status "finished" with one results page; when continuation is present, pass it alone to fetch the next completed page without re-submitting or polling the job. A gene name often maps to one reviewed Swiss-Prot accession plus dozens of unreviewed TrEMBL ones, so target UniProtKB-Swiss-Prot (reviewed only) for the usual intent, or UniProtKB to include TrEMBL. Pair a gene-symbol from_db with tax_id to disambiguate species. A row whose UniProtKB target is inactive (merged, demerged, or deleted) carries an inactive marker naming its replacements. Chain the resulting active accessions into uniprot_get_entry.

  • uniprot_get_entrychangeddescription, input schema, output schema
    before

    Fetch full curated UniProtKB entries by accession in one batch (up to 20). Each entry carries function, catalytic activity, cofactors, subcellular location, disease involvement, PTMs, natural variants, isoforms, domains, GO terms, keywords, and cross-references. Partial failures do not abort the batch — resolved entries land in succeeded[] and unknown/withdrawn accessions in failed[]. Pass fields to trim the upstream projection. A single oversized record returns kind: "outline" (a section listing with byte sizes) instead of overflowing context — re-call the same accession with sections:[...] (e.g. ["disease","variants"]) to pull only those. This tool does not search: accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins.results[].accession or uniprot_map_ids. Strip any isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.

    after · 76% of words in common

    Fetch full curated UniProtKB entries by accession in one batch (up to 20). Each entry carries function, catalytic activity, cofactors, subcellular location, disease involvement, PTMs, natural variants, isoforms, domains, GO terms, keywords, and cross-references. Partial failures do not abort the batch — resolved entries land in succeeded[] and unknown or inactive (merged, demerged, deleted) accessions in failed[], where the error for an inactive accession names the accession to retry with or the UniParc ID that keeps its sequence. Pass fields to trim the upstream projection. A single oversized record returns kind: "outline" (a section listing with byte sizes) instead of overflowing context — re-call the same accession with sections:[...] (e.g. ["disease","variants"]) to pull only those. sections takes exactly one accession; trim a batch with fields instead. A list section too large on its own (the natural variants of p53, over a thousand) pages with section_limit/section_offset on a re-call naming that one section. This tool does not search: accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins.results[].accession or uniprot_map_ids. Strip any isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.

  • uniprot_search_proteinschangeddescription, input schema, output schema
    before

    Search UniProtKB and return curated protein records. Pass text_search for a plain-language query (the 80% case) or query for the full Lucene field syntax (gene:TP53 AND organism_id:9606 AND reviewed:true) — exactly one is required. Reviewed (Swiss-Prot) entries are manually curated; unreviewed (TrEMBL) are computationally predicted and ~30x more numerous, so reviewed defaults to true to avoid drowning in predictions — set it false to include TrEMBL. Request facets (e.g. reviewed, model_organism) for server-side count breakdowns. Results page forward with an opaque cursor; UniProtKB has no offset paging. This is the discovery entry point — chain results[].accession into uniprot_get_entry for full records, or uniprot_get_sequence for FASTA.

    after · 80% of words in common

    Search UniProtKB and return curated protein records. Pass text_search for a plain-language query (the 80% case) or query for the full Lucene field syntax (gene:TP53 AND organism_id:9606 AND reviewed:true) — exactly one is required. Reviewed (Swiss-Prot) entries are manually curated; unreviewed (TrEMBL) are computationally predicted and ~30x more numerous, so reviewed defaults to true to avoid drowning in predictions — set it false to search both tiers together (for TrEMBL only, put reviewed:false in query). The organism_id and reviewed filters apply to the whole query. Request facets (e.g. reviewed, model_organism) for server-side count breakdowns. Results page forward with an opaque cursor; UniProtKB has no offset paging. An inactive accession the query matches (merged, demerged, or deleted) comes back in inactive[] with the accessions that replace it, never as a result. This is the discovery entry point — chain results[].accession into uniprot_get_entry for full records, or uniprot_get_sequence for FASTA.

Full history: list_changes · trend: quality JSON.

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Trust 94 / 100

provenance80
liveness100
freshness100
hygiene100

+repository +namespace-matches-repo +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-8d-ago

Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed. How it is computed.

Dependencies

@cyanheads/[email protected] npm36 dependencies, resolved · MCP SDK @modelcontextprotocol/core 2.3.1 · advisories checked 2026-10-20

No known advisory affects this dependency graph.

@cyanheads/[email protected] npm36 dependencies, resolved · MCP SDK @modelcontextprotocol/core 2.3.1 · advisories checked 2026-10-20

No known advisory affects this dependency graph.

Dependency graphs from deps.dev; advisories from OSV.dev, including the GitHub Advisory Database and the PyPI Advisory Database; all CC BY 4.0. The graph is what a clean install of this version resolves today; nothing was installed or run. How it is checked.

Endpoints

remoteauthreachableuptime 30dp50protocollast ok
https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-httpnoneyes100%182 ms2026-07-282026-10-20
packageregistryversionruntimesecrets
@cyanheads/uniprot-mcp-servernpm0.2.6npx
@cyanheads/uniprot-mcp-servernpm0.2.6npx

Tools (6)

uniprot_get_entryread-onlyFetch full curated UniProtKB entries by accession in one batch (up to 20). Each entry carries function, catalytic activity, cofactors, subcellular location, disease involvement, PTMs, natural variants, isoforms, domains, GO terms, keywords, and cross-references. Partial failures do not abort the batch — resolved entries land in succeeded[] and unknown or inactive (merged, demerged, deleted) accessions in failed[], where the error for an inactive accession names the accession to retry with or the UniParc ID that keeps its sequence. Pass fields to trim the upstream projection. A single oversized record returns kind: "outline" (a section listing with byte sizes) instead of overflowing context — re-call the same accession with sections:[...] (e.g. ["disease","variants"]) to pull only those. sections takes exactly one accession; trim a batch with fields instead. A list section too large on its own (the natural variants of p53, over a thousand) pages with section_limit/section_offset on a re-call naming that one section. This tool does not search: accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins.results[].accession or uniprot_map_ids. Strip any isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.
uniprot_get_proteomeread-onlyFetch the reference proteome for an organism by UPID (e.g. "UP000005640") or NCBI taxon ID (e.g. 9606) — provide exactly one. Returns metadata inline: proteome type, total protein count, BUSCO completeness (score, complete/fragmented/missing counts, lineage dataset), and the genome assembly accession. The protein set is opt-in via include_proteins (it is large — human is ~147,506) and returns a capped page with a forward cursor; narrow it with the query filter (UniProtKB Lucene syntax) for a subset. Resolve an organism name to a taxon ID first with uniprot_get_taxonomy.
uniprot_get_sequenceread-onlyFetch the canonical amino-acid sequence (FASTA) for a UniProtKB accession, with length and the parsed header. Set include_isoforms to also return the alternatively-spliced isoform sequences. This is the cheap sequence-only path — for the full functional record use uniprot_get_entry. A merged accession returns the sequences of its merge target, labelled with the target accession and the requested one in mergedFrom; a demerged or deleted accession fails not_found naming its replacements or UniParc ID. Accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins or uniprot_map_ids; strip any "-N" isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.
uniprot_get_taxonomyread-onlyResolve a taxonomy record by NCBI taxon ID (e.g. 9606) or scientific name (e.g. "Homo sapiens") — provide exactly one. Returns the scientific and common name, mnemonic, rank, parent, and the full lineage. Set include_children to also fetch immediate child taxa (a separate lookup — not inline on the record) in pages of 100 with the total child count; when more remain, pass the returned cursor to fetch the next page. Use this to turn an organism name into the taxon ID that uniprot_search_proteins (organism_id) and uniprot_get_proteome (taxon_id) expect.
uniprot_map_idsread-onlyTranslate identifiers across databases via UniProt's ID-mapping service — gene names to accessions, accession to PDB / Ensembl / RefSeq / ChEMBL / GeneID, and back. The job runs asynchronously; this tool submits it and polls within a budget. A running job returns status "running" with a ticket; pass that ticket alone to poll the same job. A completed call returns status "finished" with one results page; when continuation is present, pass it alone to fetch the next completed page without re-submitting or polling the job. A gene name often maps to one reviewed Swiss-Prot accession plus dozens of unreviewed TrEMBL ones, so target UniProtKB-Swiss-Prot (reviewed only) for the usual intent, or UniProtKB to include TrEMBL. Pair a gene-symbol from_db with tax_id to disambiguate species. A row whose UniProtKB target is inactive (merged, demerged, or deleted) carries an inactive marker naming its replacements. Chain the resulting active accessions into uniprot_get_entry.
uniprot_search_proteinsread-onlySearch UniProtKB and return curated protein records. Pass text_search for a plain-language query (the 80% case) or query for the full Lucene field syntax (gene:TP53 AND organism_id:9606 AND reviewed:true) — exactly one is required. Reviewed (Swiss-Prot) entries are manually curated; unreviewed (TrEMBL) are computationally predicted and ~30x more numerous, so reviewed defaults to true to avoid drowning in predictions — set it false to search both tiers together (for TrEMBL only, put reviewed:false in query). The organism_id and reviewed filters apply to the whole query. Request facets (e.g. reviewed, model_organism) for server-side count breakdowns. Results page forward with an opaque cursor; UniProtKB has no offset paging. An inactive accession the query matches (merged, demerged, or deleted) comes back in inactive[] with the accessions that replace it, never as a result. This is the discovery entry point — chain results[].accession into uniprot_get_entry for full records, or uniprot_get_sequence for FASTA.

Schemas: list_tools.

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  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "remotes": [
    {
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp",
      "type": "streamable-http"
    }
  ],
  "version": "0.2.6",
  "packages": [
    {
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      "transport": {
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      "identifier": "@cyanheads/uniprot-mcp-server",
      "runtimeHint": "npx",
      "registryType": "npm",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
          "format": "string",
          "default": "info",
          "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "version": "0.2.6",
      "transport": {
        "url": "http://localhost:3010/mcp",
        "type": "streamable-http"
      },
      "identifier": "@cyanheads/uniprot-mcp-server",
      "runtimeHint": "npx",
      "registryType": "npm",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "name": "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE",
          "value": "http",
          "format": "string",
          "description": "Selects the HTTP transport."
        },
        {
          "name": "MCP_HTTP_HOST",
          "format": "string",
          "default": "127.0.0.1",
          "description": "The hostname for the HTTP server."
        },
        {
          "name": "MCP_HTTP_PORT",
          "format": "string",
          "default": "3010",
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        {
          "name": "MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH",
          "format": "string",
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        {
          "name": "MCP_AUTH_MODE",
          "format": "string",
          "default": "none",
          "description": "Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'."
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        {
          "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
          "format": "string",
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  "repository": {
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  "description": "Protein research over UniProtKB: search by function, fetch curated records, map IDs, proteomes."
}