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

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

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

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

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