Ensembl MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ensembl_feature_overlapB | Find genomic features (genes, transcripts, regulatory elements) that overlap with a genomic region or specific feature. Automatically handles assembly-specific format variations (GRCh38/hg38, chromosome naming conventions, coordinate systems). Covers /overlap/region and /overlap/id endpoints. |
| ensembl_regulatoryC | Get regulatory features, binding matrices, and regulatory annotations. Covers regulatory overlap endpoints and binding matrix data. |
| ensembl_protein_featuresC | Get protein-level features, domains, and annotations for proteins and translations. |
| ensembl_metaA | Get server metadata, data releases, species info, and system status. Covers /info/* endpoints and /archive/id for version tracking. |
| ensembl_lookupB | Look up genes, transcripts, variants by ID or symbol. Get cross-references and perform ID translation. Covers /lookup/* and /xrefs/* endpoints plus variant_recoder. |
| ensembl_sequenceC | Retrieve DNA, RNA, or protein sequences for genes, transcripts, regions. Covers /sequence/id and /sequence/region endpoints. |
| ensembl_mappingC | Map coordinates between different coordinate systems (genomic ↔ cDNA/CDS/protein) and between genome assemblies. Covers /map/* endpoints. |
| ensembl_comparaC | Comparative genomics: gene trees, homology, species alignments, and evolutionary analysis. Covers /genetree/, /homology/, /alignment/* endpoints. |
| ensembl_variationC | Variant analysis: VEP consequence prediction, variant lookup, LD analysis, phenotype mapping, haplotypes. Covers /variation/, /vep/, /ld/, /phenotype/ endpoints. |
| ensembl_ontotaxC | Ontology term search and NCBI taxonomy traversal. Search GO terms, phenotype ontologies, and taxonomic classifications. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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