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Uniprot MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 204 installs a week from npm. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 22 Oct 2026.

Protein research over UniProtKB: search by function, fetch curated records, map IDs, proteomes.

Installs per day peak 221 · avg 36 · -33% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 73 days of history · worst day 95%
73 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
573 ms
Response time
average over 24h
204
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 19

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 31 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

22 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for uniprot_get_proteome, uniprot_search_proteins
22 Oct a tool description was rewritten uniprot_get_entry
22 Oct a tool changed version
13 Oct 5 tool descriptions were rewritten uniprot_get_entry, uniprot_get_sequence, uniprot_get_taxonomy and 2 more
13 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for uniprot_get_entry, uniprot_get_taxonomy, uniprot_map_ids and 1 more
13 Oct a tool changed version
9 Oct a tool changed version
20 Sep a tool changed version
31 Aug a tool description was rewritten uniprot_map_ids
31 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for uniprot_map_ids
and 1 more, back to 31 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Uniprot MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add uniprot-mcp-server --transport http https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.uniprot-mcp-server]
url = "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "uniprot-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

uniprot
uniprot_get_entry
Fetch full curated UniProtKB entries by accession in one batch (up to 20). Each entry carries function, catalytic activity, cofactors, subcellular location, disease involvement, PTMs, natural variants, isoforms, domains, GO terms, keywords, and cross-references. Partial failures do not abort the batch — resolved entries land in succeeded[] and unknown or inactive (merged, demerged, deleted) accessions in failed[], where an inactive accession names its replacement or UniParc ID. Pass fields to trim the upstream projection. Initial responses exceeding 24,000 UTF-8 bytes across both output surfaces return kind: "outline": a single resolved record lists sections with byte sizes; a batch lists outlinedEntries in request order and retains failed[]. Re-call each outlined accession individually, e.g. accessions:["P04637"], for its full record or section outline, then add sections:["disease","variants"] to select sections. sections takes exactly one accession; trim a batch with fields instead. All returned list items and cross-reference IDs render in full. A large list section pages with section_limit/section_offset on a re-call naming that one section. This tool does not search: accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins.results[].accession or uniprot_map_ids. Strip any isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.
uniprot_get_proteome
Fetch the reference proteome for an organism by UPID (e.g. "UP000005640") or NCBI taxon ID (e.g. 9606) — provide exactly one. Returns metadata inline: proteome type, total protein count, BUSCO completeness (score, complete/fragmented/missing counts, lineage dataset), and the genome assembly accession. The protein set is opt-in via include_proteins (it is large — human is ~147,506) and returns a capped page with a forward cursor; narrow it with the query filter (UniProtKB Lucene syntax) for a subset. Resolve an organism name to a taxon ID first with uniprot_get_taxonomy.
uniprot_get_sequence
Fetch the canonical amino-acid sequence (FASTA) for a UniProtKB accession, with length and the parsed header. Set include_isoforms to also return the alternatively-spliced isoform sequences. This is the cheap sequence-only path — for the full functional record use uniprot_get_entry. A merged accession returns the sequences of its merge target, labelled with the target accession and the requested one in mergedFrom; a demerged or deleted accession fails not_found naming its replacements or UniParc ID. Accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins or uniprot_map_ids; strip any "-N" isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.
uniprot_get_taxonomy
Resolve a taxonomy record by NCBI taxon ID (e.g. 9606) or scientific name (e.g. "Homo sapiens") — provide exactly one. Returns the scientific and common name, mnemonic, rank, parent, and the full lineage. Set include_children to also fetch immediate child taxa (a separate lookup — not inline on the record) in pages of 100 with the total child count; when more remain, pass the returned cursor to fetch the next page. Use this to turn an organism name into the taxon ID that uniprot_search_proteins (organism_id) and uniprot_get_proteome (taxon_id) expect.
uniprot_map_ids
Translate identifiers across databases via UniProt's ID-mapping service — gene names to accessions, accession to PDB / Ensembl / RefSeq / ChEMBL / GeneID, and back. The job runs asynchronously; this tool submits it and polls within a budget. A running job returns status "running" with a ticket; pass that ticket alone to poll the same job. A completed call returns status "finished" with one results page; when continuation is present, pass it alone to fetch the next completed page without re-submitting or polling the job. A gene name often maps to one reviewed Swiss-Prot accession plus dozens of unreviewed TrEMBL ones, so target UniProtKB-Swiss-Prot (reviewed only) for the usual intent, or UniProtKB to include TrEMBL. Pair a gene-symbol from_db with tax_id to disambiguate species. A row whose UniProtKB target is inactive (merged, demerged, or deleted) carries an inactive marker naming its replacements. Chain the resulting active accessions into uniprot_get_entry.
uniprot_search_proteins
Search UniProtKB and return curated protein records. Pass text_search for a plain-language query (the 80% case) or query for the full Lucene field syntax (gene:TP53 AND organism_id:9606 AND reviewed:true) — exactly one is required. Reviewed (Swiss-Prot) entries are manually curated; unreviewed (TrEMBL) are computationally predicted and ~30x more numerous, so reviewed defaults to true to avoid drowning in predictions — set it false to search both tiers together (for TrEMBL only, put reviewed:false in query). The organism_id and reviewed filters apply to the whole query. Request facets (e.g. reviewed, model_organism) for server-side count breakdowns. Results page forward with an opaque cursor; UniProtKB has no offset paging. An inactive accession the query matches (merged, demerged, or deleted) comes back in inactive[] with the accessions that replace it, never as a result. This is the discovery entry point — chain results[].accession into uniprot_get_entry for full records, or uniprot_get_sequence for FASTA.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://uniprot.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 533 ms 1 min ago

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Uniprot MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Uniprot MCP Server do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: uniprot_get_entry, uniprot_get_proteome, uniprot_get_sequence, uniprot_get_taxonomy, uniprot_map_ids, uniprot_search_proteins. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Uniprot MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 573 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Uniprot MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Uniprot MCP Server need an API key?
No. Uniprot MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Uniprot MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 573 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Uniprot MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/uniprot-mcp-server was installed 204 times in the last week. Week over week that is -33%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Uniprot MCP Server open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript and 2 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at uniprot.caseyjhand.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.