PubMed

Search biomedical literature from PubMed

Provides access to PubMed's biomedical citations and PubMed Central's full-text archive. Search articles, retrieve metadata and abstracts, access full-text content (when available in PMC), find related research, and more.

Install

1Add the server to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http pubmed https://pubmed.mcp.claude.com/mcp

These instructions target Claude Code. Check the publisher's documentation for support in other Claude surfaces; a valid server URL alone does not establish compatibility.

JSON.mcp.json for a shared project

Commit this file so everyone on the project gets the same server.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pubmed.mcp.claude.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

search_articles
get_article_metadata
find_related_articles
lookup_article_by_citation
convert_article_ids
get_full_text_article
get_copyright_status

About

Provides access to PubMed's biomedical citations and PubMed Central's full-text archive. Search articles, retrieve metadata and abstracts, access full-text content (when available in PMC), find related research, and more.

You can use the PubMed connector to:

Search recent publications:
"How many cancer research articles have been published this month?"

Summarize research papers:
"Summarize the research paper 'Nucleoporin-mediated regulation of cell identity genes'"

Query scientific mechanisms:
"What is known about the mechanisms of DNA repair including the roles of Rad51 and Brca1 in PubMed?"

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