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Biomcp

Biomcp is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. BioMCP: Biomedical Model Context Protocol. It has 664 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/genomoncology/biomcp.

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Install Biomcp

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biomcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/genomoncology/biomcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio biomcp -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/genomoncology/biomcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biomcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/genomoncology/biomcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "biomcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/genomoncology/biomcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Biomcp

One binary. One grammar. Evidence from the biomedical sources you already trust. BioMCP retrieves data from upstream biomedical sources. Those sources' terms govern how you use the data they return: some restrict commercial or clinical use. Check each source's terms and obtain any licence you need before relying on the data. See Source Licensing and Terms for the per-source breakdown.

  • ai
  • bioinformatics
  • clinical-trials
  • genomics
  • llm
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • medical
  • model-context-protocol
  • pubmed

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How do I install the Biomcp MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/genomoncology/biomcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Biomcp free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Biomcp actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 23, 2026. The latest release is v0.9.3, published Oct 18, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.