# rnacentral-mcp-server

> An MCP server for RNAcentral, providing RNA sequence search, ID mapping, genomic context, and 2D structures.

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- status: unknown
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## Verification
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## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/RNAcentral/rnacentral-mcp-server
- repository: https://github.com/RNAcentral/rnacentral-mcp-server
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT License  Copyright (c) 2026 RNAcentral  Permission is hereb…
- protocols: mcp
- tags: bioinformatics, mcp, model-context-protocol, rna, rnacentral
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:rnacentral-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

# RNAcentral MCP Server

[![Documentation](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-github%20pages-blue)](https://rnacentral.github.io/rnacentral-mcp-server/)
[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/rnacentral-mcp-server)](https://pypi.org/project/rnacentral-mcp-server/)

This is an MCP server that provides a comprehensive interface to the RNAcentral database, allowing for complex searches, sequence mapping, genomic analysis, and metadata retrieval for non-coding RNA sequences.

📖 **Full documentation:** <https://rnacentral.github.io/rnacentral-mcp-server/> — installation guides for Claude Desktop / Claude Code / other MCP clients, per-tool reference, and examples.

## Features

- **Comprehensive Search**: Query RNAcentral using natural language or filters (RNA type, taxon, expert database). Combines EBI Search and RNAcentral API data for enriched metadata (Rfam hits, GO annotations).
- **Sequence Search**: Search for RNA sequences across multiple databases to find identical or similar entries.
- **Bidirectional ID Mapping**: Map between RNAcentral URS IDs and external database identifiers (miRBase, Ensembl, HGNC, etc.) with automatic taxonomy resolution.
- **Bulk Sequence Export**: Export search results in FASTA or Parquet formats, ideal for downstream analysis or machine learning datasets.
- **Genomic Overlap (Ensembl)**: Find non-coding RNAs overlapping specific genomic coordinates or gene symbols using Ensembl's GraphQL integration.
- **2D Structure Diagrams**: Retrieve secondary structure (2D) diagrams in SVG format for RNAs with known or predicted folds.
- **Literature Summaries**: Access AI-generated literature summaries for RNA sequences to understand their biological context.

## Prerequisites

- Python 3.10 or higher
- [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (recommended) or pip

## Installation

The server is published on PyPI as [`rnacentral-mcp-server`](https://pypi.org/project/rnacentral-mcp-server/). The easiest way to run it is with `uvx`, which fetches and runs …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (0.791, derived)
- dev.docs-lookup (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/rnacentral-mcp-server/ (first seen 2026-09-10T11:27:12.519Z)

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