Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery is an MCP server with 7 tools an agent can call, among them get_corpus_summary, get_publication_details, get_publication_neighborhood. It answers at https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 6 of 6 times since 11 September 2026; the last check, on 22 October 2026, succeeded.
Search biomedical papers, inspect publication records, and traverse citation or semantic graphs.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
get_corpus_summary | Return public corpus coverage, source, freshness, and count metadata. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment. |
get_publication_details | Retrieve one complete public bibliographic record by PMID after search. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment. Inputs: pmid |
get_publication_neighborhood | Retrieve the bounded citation and semantic neighborhood around one PMID. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment. Inputs: pmid, from_work_id |
get_work_details | Retrieve one complete public bibliographic record by Noodle work identifier. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment. Inputs: work_id |
get_work_neighborhood | Retrieve the bounded citation and semantic neighborhood around one Noodle work identifier. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment. Inputs: work_id, from_work_id |
search_biomedical_literature | Semantically search Noodle's public PubMed-derived biomedical corpus. Include known PMID, DOI, or PMCID identifiers in the query so they can act as exact anchors. Results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis o Inputs: query, limit, sort, cursor |
support_helena | Learn about the separate Helena Good MCP. This opt-in information action initiates no payment or outreach and changes no scientific result. |
Every block below points at https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http noodle-biomedical-literature-dis https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"serverUrl": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}name: Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery
type: streamable-http
url: https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"httpUrl": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"noodle-biomedical-literature-dis": {
"url": "https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.helena.bio%2Fnoodle%2Fv1%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=noodle-biomedical-literature-dis&name=Noodle%20Biomedical%20Literature%20Discovery
It answered our last check on 22 October 2026 in 133 ms. Over 6 checks since 11 September 2026 it answered 6. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
7, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 14 September 2026: get_corpus_summary, get_publication_details, get_publication_neighborhood, get_work_details, get_work_neighborhood, search_biomedical_literature, support_helena.
It answered our last check on 22 October 2026 in 133 ms. Over 6 checks since 11 September 2026 it answered 6.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://api.helena.bio/noodle/v1/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: io.github.helena-bioinformatics. Endpoint host: api.helena.bio. ARD identifier: urn:air:io.github.helena-bioinformatics:mcp:noodle.
First indexed 10 September 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.