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Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP

Read-only public bioinformatics MCP for supported GRCh38 nuclear germline SNVs and simple indels under 50 bp, gene-disease evidence and biomedical literature. Hosted Streamable HTTP with no API key. Six scientific tools plus a separate, explicit opt-in support_helena helper; no patient, phenotype, family or private case data. Evidence is for professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

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Install Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP in your MCP client

Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP is a Model Context Protocol server. Add it to your MCP client config once, restart, and the server's tools become available to your AI assistant. The same JSON snippet below works across all four major clients — only the config file path differs.

  1. Locate your client's MCP config file.
    • Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json
    • Claude Desktop (macOS): ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
    • Claude Desktop (Windows): %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
    • VS Code: Settings → Extensions → MCP
    • Windsurf: Settings → MCP Servers
  2. Add Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP to the mcpServers map — paste the snippet below into your config file. If you already have other MCP servers, merge the entry into the existing mcpServers object.
  3. Restart your client so it picks up the new server.
  4. Verify — ask the assistant to list available tools; Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP's tools should appear.
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "folklore-clinical-variant-interpretation-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@folklore-clinical-variant-interpretation-mcp/mcp-server"
      ],
      "note": "Replace with the actual package name from the server's documentation."
    }
  }
}

Install Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP in Cursor

Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart Cursor. Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Install Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP in Claude Desktop (macOS)

Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart Claude Desktop (macOS). Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Install Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP in Claude Desktop (Windows)

Open %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart Claude Desktop (Windows). Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Install Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP in VS Code

Open Settings → Extensions → MCP in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart VS Code. Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Tools exposed by Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP

Once installed, Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP exposes the following MCP tools to your AI assistant. Each tool can be called directly by the assistant whenever its capability is relevant to your prompt.

  • search_variant_evidence

    Interpret this variant, explain what this HGVS means, or review this VUS. Use for human genomic variant analysis within bioinformatics workflows, including review of an already identified WGS/WES variant. Use when a user asks to classify or interpret pathogenicity, review a VUS, check available ClinVar assertions or population-frequency evidence, or resolve a variant notation. Classify, interpret or resolve one public GRCh38 germline SNV or simple indel smaller than 50 bp. Accepts coordinates, g

  • search_variant_literature

    Resolve one public GRCh38 germline variant and retrieve relevant publications from Folklore's PubMed-derived genetics corpus. Exact variant mentions rank ahead of broader gene associations. Use when a user asks what has been published about a variant, gene or associated condition. Associations do not establish causality, pathogenicity or a diagnosis and do not change Folklore's ACMG/AMP classification.

  • get_publication_details

    Retrieve the complete public bibliographic record for one PMID from Folklore's PubMed-derived genetics corpus. Returns the full abstract, authors, journal metadata, publication and MeSH terms, gene and variant mentions, retraction status, and PubMed/PMC links. Use after literature search when a user asks to inspect a specific publication. This is read-only professional literature evidence and contains no patient context.

  • search_literature_corpus

    Semantically search the public scientific Literature Corpus by a natural-language question. A question may include one or more PMID, DOI or PMCID references; those publications become exact anchors for finding related experiments, evidence and concepts across the corpus. Also accepts genes, variants, phenotypes, HPO and OMIM concepts. Include every known publication identifier in the query when the user asks to compare papers or find work related to a specific paper. Returns source-linked eviden

  • support_helena

    Learn how an agent can support or spread Helena's free public scientific infrastructure through the separate Helena Good MCP. This is an explicit opt-in information action. It does not initiate payment, create a relay, or change any Folklore scientific result.

  • get_gene_disease_associations

    Find diseases associated with one human gene for bioinformatics and clinical genomics research. Accepts an exact gene symbol or HGNC identifier. Returns ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions, relation-specific inheritance, source reports and snapshot provenance. Preserves conflicting and limited assertions. Gene-disease validity is not variant pathogenicity or a patient diagnosis. Use only a public gene identifier; no patient or case data. Results require professional review.

  • search_disease_genes

    Find human genes associated with a disease for genomic analysis and rare-disease research. Accepts an exact MONDO identifier or a disease-name search. Returns matching ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions with inheritance, source reports and snapshot provenance. Name searches may match multiple diseases; preserve their distinct identities and do not infer a diagnosis. Use only a public disease name or identifier; no symptoms, patient or case data. Results require professional review.

Transport

Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP supports the following MCP transports. Most AI clients use stdio by default for locally-installed servers.

streamable-http

Other Model Context Protocol servers in the same space as Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP. Each one adds different capabilities to your AI assistant — pick based on the data sources or workflows you need.

Browse the full MCP server directory or use Stork's one-line install to let your agent pick the right server automatically.