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smarts.bio MCP Server

smarts.bio brings a real bioinformatics platform into Claude. Describe your analysis in plain English and run actual tools and pipelines on your own data — no scripting or setup required.

What you can do:

  • Run sequence searches and analyses — BLAST, GC content, ORFs, domains, and more across DNA, RNA, and protein
  • Call and annotate variants, align reads (WES, RNA-seq), and run quality-control and other multi-step pipelines
  • Upload and manage workspace files, then open results - FASTA, BAM, VCF, PDB, CSV - in interactive viewers Search genes, literature, and patents alongside your analysis

Who it's for: biologists, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, and researchers who'd rather describe an analysis than wire up the tooling.

Connect your smarts.bio account to get started. Long-running jobs keep working in the background, and your files stay in your own workspace.

Publisher claimed. 11 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under health. Published by smarts.bio.

Status

Pod has not dialled smarts.bio yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 11 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

  • smarts_list_files
  • smarts_list_pipelines
  • smarts_list_tools
  • smarts_list_workspaces
  • smarts_open_file
  • smarts_query
  • smarts_read_file
  • smarts_run_pipeline
  • smarts_run_status
  • smarts_run_tool
  • smarts_view_as_image

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.smarts.bio/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smarts-bio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.smarts.bio/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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