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pubmed-mcp-server

Active·★ 162·Apache-2.0·Updated 2026-10-12

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates NCBI E-utilities, providing seven tools for searching PubMed, fetching article metadata and full text, generating citations, exploring MeSH terms, and discovering related research. It supports both STDIO and Streamable HTTP transports, and can run locally or on Cloudflare Workers.

#ai-agents#ai-tools#biomedical#citations#cloudflare-workers#e-utilities#mcp#mcp-server
$ Install
$ git clone https://github.com/cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server.git && cd pubmed-mcp-server && bun install
↗ Visit site★ GitHub
01

Features

01Complete NCBI E-utilities integration
02Sequential request queue with configurable rate limit compliance
03Hand-rolled citation formatters (APA, MLA, BibTeX, RIS)
04Runs locally or on Cloudflare Workers
05Pluggable authentication and storage backends
02

Compatibility

Bun
Bun
Verified via docs
Node.js
Node.js
Verified via docs
Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers
Verified via docs
03

Quick start

1
$ git clone https://github.com/cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server.git
2
$ cd pubmed-mcp-server
3
$ bun install
04

Use cases

↳Literature search and article retrieval for biomedical research
↳Automated citation generation for academic writing
↳Exploring MeSH vocabulary for precise query formulation
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MCP server for the NCBI E-utilities API. Search PubMed, fetch article metadata and full text, generate citations, explore MeSH terms, and discover related research. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

162Apache-2.0
Last commit1w ago
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CategoryDev Tooling
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