PubMed#

Search and retrieve biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Over 36 million citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Capabilities#

ToolDescriptionsearch_pubmedSearch by keyword, author name, or MeSH term. Returns PubMed IDs.get_summaryMetadata for one or more articles: title, authors, journal, DOI.get_abstractFull abstract text with section labels (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions).

Typical workflow#

1. Search for articles on a topic with search_pubmed
2. Get metadata for the top results with get_summary
3. Pull the full abstract for the most relevant paper with get_abstract

Example: find CRISPR research#

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_pubmed","arguments":{"query":"CRISPR cancer therapy","limit":5}}}'

Query syntax tips#

PubMed supports field-tagged searches. Some useful patterns:

• "Smith J"[Author] -- search by author
• "COVID-19"[MeSH] -- search MeSH terms
• "Nature"[Journal] -- restrict to a journal
• Combine with AND/OR: CRISPR AND (cancer OR tumor)

Add to your MCP client#

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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