# nucleotide-archive-mcp

> MCP server for searching European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) datasets. Find RNA-seq studies, retrieve metadata, and discover related publications to validate research hypotheses.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/nucleotide-archive-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Malte Kuehl
- homepage: https://nucleotide_archive_mcp.readthedocs.io/
- repository: https://github.com/biocontext-ai/nucleotide_archive_mcp
- version: 0.0.7
- license: Apache License Version 2.0
        Version 2.0, January 2004
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- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:nucleotide-archive-mcp

### Description (declared)

# RNA Dataset Search - MCP Server

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for searching and accessing RNA sequencing datasets from the [European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home). Find publicly available bulk RNA-seq and single-cell RNA-seq datasets to validate research hypotheses or reproduce published analyses.

**Optimized for**: Human and mouse disease-related RNA-seq studies with support for bulk, single-cell, and spatial transcriptomics.

## Features

- **Disease-Focused Search**: Find datasets by disease, organism, and tissue type
- **Advanced Technology Filtering**:
  - Simple presets: bulk, single-cell, small-rna, ribo-seq, rna-all
  - Granular control: Filter by 50+ library strategies (RNA-Seq, miRNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-seq, etc.)
  - Source filtering: TRANSCRIPTOMIC, GENOMIC, METAGENOMIC, etc.
- **Common Organism Names**: Use "human", "mouse", "rat" instead of scientific names
- **Download Support**: Generate wget/curl scripts for downloading FASTQ files
- **Study Metadata**: Retrieve comprehensive metadata including PubMed IDs
- **Publication Links**: Discover datasets associated with PubMed publications
- **Flexible Queries**: Build custom queries with multiple field conditions
- **Field Discovery**: Explore available search and return fields
- **Environment Configuration**: Customize API endpoints, timeouts, and logging via environment variables

## Available Tools

The MCP server provides 10 specialized tools:

### Search & Discovery
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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/nucleotide-archive-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:25:42.991Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/nucleotide-archive-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/nucleotide-archive-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:nucleotide-archive-mcp