Genomics MCP is a local Model Context Protocol server. An agent can use it to find public datasets and read a bounded region from archive, remote or local files. It can also look up variants and…
genomics-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the rewire-bio/genomics-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Genomics MCP is a local Model Context Protocol server. An agent can use it to find public datasets and read a bounded region from archive…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using docker. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"genomics": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"--rm",
"-i",
"--mount",
"type=bind,source=/path/to/your/data,target=/data,readonly",
"--mount",
"type=volume,source=genomics-mcp-work,target=/work",
"ghcr.io/rewire-bio/genomics-mcp:0.1.0"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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