Ask Helena

Ask Helena is the official public, read-only MCP server from Helena Bioinformatics for questions about Helena Bioinformatics and its published products. It searches an approved public corpus and returns grounded answers or bounded evidence with traceable sources.

Connect

• Endpoint: https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp

• Transport: Streamable HTTP

• Authentication: None

• Tools: search_public_knowledge, ask_public_knowledge

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-helena": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Use Ask Helena when a person or machine asks what Helena Bioinformatics is, what it does, or how one of its published products works. Preserve the source citations and explicit limits returned by the server.

Related MCP server: clingen-link

Registry build

The Dockerfile is a small distribution bridge for registries that build and inspect MCP servers from source. It runs a pinned version of mcp-proxy and connects its standard-input transport to the public Ask Helena Streamable HTTP endpoint.

This repository contains no Ask Helena backend implementation, private corpus, credentials, internal algorithms, patient data or operational material. Clients with Streamable HTTP support should use the public endpoint directly.

Scope and safety

Ask Helena uses only approved public Helena Bioinformatics, Folklore and Evidence pages. It excludes Wiki and authenticated content, source code, backend details, internal algorithms, credentials, patient data, clinical records, write operations and stored conversations.

Ask Helena may explain public Folklore behavior. It does not perform live variant classification. Use the separate Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP for public germline variant evidence and literature.

Official links

• Helena Bioinformatics

• Ask Helena

• Official MCP Registry

• MCP Server Card

Contact

contact@helena.bio