BioMCP-TS MCP Server

What the code does

We read the source, 17 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

const child = spawn(process.execPath, [bundle], { stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'inherit'], env: process.env });

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add biomcp-ts -- npx -y biomcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biomcp-ts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "biomcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.biomcp-ts]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "biomcp"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biomcp-ts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "biomcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biomcp-ts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "biomcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ANALYSIS_BIOWASM (Set to 1 to enable the samtools/bedtools/bcftools biowasm analysis tools), ANALYSIS_R (Set to 1 to enable the R/Bioconductor analysis tools (requires the webr peer dependency; use the pinned one-shot client command)), DB_TYPE (Set to mysql or sqlite to enable the read-only SQL database tools), NCBI_API_KEY (Higher NCBI E-utilities rate limits (3 -> 10 req/s)), S2_API_KEY (Higher Semantic Scholar rate limits), OPENFDA_API_KEY (Higher OpenFDA rate limits), ONCOKB_TOKEN (Required by the variant_oncokb tool (OncoKB annotations)), DISGENET_API_KEY (Required for DisGeNET disease-gene associations). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.