uniprot-mcp-server

Protein function, sequence, and annotation research across UniProtKB — search by function/keyword/GO/organism, fetch curated entries, and map IDs across 100+…

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What it can do

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 organi
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, PTM
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 async

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Protein function, sequence, and annotation research across UniProtKB — search by function/keyword/GO/organism, fetch curated entries, and map IDs across 100+ databases.

Server tool list (6)

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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 include TrEMBL. Request facets (e.g. reviewed, model_organism) for server-side count breakdowns. Results page forward with an opaque cursor; UniProtKB has no offset paging. This is the discovery entry point — chain results[].accession into uniprot_get_entry for full records, or uniprot_get_sequence for FASTA.
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 Partial failures do not abort the batch — resolved entries land in succeeded[] and unknown/withdrawn accessions in failed[]. Pass fields to trim the upstream projection. A single oversized record returns kind: "outline" (a section listing with byte sizes) instead of overflowing context — re-call the same accession with sections:[...] (e.g. ["disease","variants"]) to pull only those. 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_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. If it finishes in time you get status "finished" with the mappings; if it runs long you get status "running" with a ticket — re-call with that ticket (and no other inputs) to fetch the result without re-submitting. 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 / UniProtKB_AC-ID to include TrEMBL. Pair a gene-symbol from_db with tax_id to disambiguate species. Chain the resulting accessions into uniprot_get_entry.
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_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). 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_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. Accessions come from uniprot_search_proteins or uniprot_map_ids; strip any "-N" isoform suffix (P04637-2 to P04637) before calling.