NCBI Literature Search MCP Server

Provides seamless access to over 35 million PubMed scientific articles through natural language queries for research discovery and analysis. It enables tools for advanced searches, retrieving article details, and exploring related research within the life sciences and biomedical fields.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: NCBI_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configREDIS_URL

configNCBI_EMAIL

🔐 secretNCBI_API_KEY

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commit: 7cf3817ba06f21a234479fb085e6245a05da761b

code hash: 09aac7c772deeba3440f64bc9fd37f00a096a97935458216261dc9af2aff5769

verified: 6/17/2026, 12:09:51 PM

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