Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP Server

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Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

Search biomedical papers, inspect publication records, and traverse citation or semantic graphs.

Uptime history 20 days of history

20 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

29 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 1 Sep 2026

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 30 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

30 Aug a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add noodle --transport http https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noodle": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.noodle]
url = "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noodle": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noodle": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

publication

get_publication_details

Retrieve one complete public bibliographic record by PMID after search. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

get_publication_neighborhood

Retrieve the bounded citation and semantic neighborhood around one PMID. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

work

get_work_details

Retrieve one complete public bibliographic record by Noodle work identifier. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

get_work_neighborhood

Retrieve the bounded citation and semantic neighborhood around one Noodle work identifier. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

biomedical

search_biomedical_literature

Semantically search Noodle's public PubMed-derived biomedical corpus. Include known PMID, DOI, or PMCID identifiers in the query so they can act as exact anchors. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

corpus

get_corpus_summary

Return public corpus coverage, source, freshness, and count metadata. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

support

support_helena

Learn about the separate Helena Good MCP. This opt-in information action initiates no payment or outreach and changes no scientific result.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp	streamable-http	answering	8 ms	11 min ago

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Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_corpus_summary, get_publication_details, get_publication_neighborhood, get_work_details, get_work_neighborhood, search_biomedical_literature and 1 more. 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 →

What is Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around publication and work. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 29 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP need an API key?

No. Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP?

It answers our handshake in 29 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.