I'm a developer on this project and wanted to introduce biothings-mcp. It's an MCP server that wraps the BioThings.io APIs to provide foundational biological data, including gene, variant, chemical, and taxonomic information which can be called by AI chat-bots

It can be used to answer questions like:

• "What are the functions and pathways associated with the human gene BRAF?"
• "Find all variants in the EGFR gene and provide their clinical significance from ClinVar."
• "What is the molecular formula and structure of the compound 'aspirin'?"
• "Download the protein FASTA sequence for UniProt ID P04637."
• "What is the taxonomic lineage for Mus musculus?"

It's packaged as an MCP server, allowing you to plug its functionality directly into AI environments. For instance, you can add it to IDEs like Cursor or VS Code Copilot, or chatbots like Claude, to access BioThings data from your AI assistant.

The tool is available at: https://github.com/longevity-genie/biothings-mcp

Usage example: