Overview

Title

MCP Simple PubMed

How to Use

• Install via Smithery (npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-simple-pubmed --client claude) or manually (pip install mcp-simple-pubmed).
• Configure with required environment variables (PUBMED_EMAIL, optional PUBMED_API_KEY).
• Integrate with Claude Desktop by updating the configuration file (claude_desktop_config.json).

Key Features

• Search PubMed articles using keywords.
• Retrieve article abstracts.
• Download full-text (XML format) for open-access articles.
• Supports higher rate limits with an NCBI API key.

Use Cases

• Quickly access PubMed research articles.
• Extract structured data (abstracts, full-text XML) for AI processing.
• Facilitate research by retrieving open-access papers.