Tomesphere is a remote MCP server that lets an assistant search 8.5 million academic papers and pull their metadata, citations, full text, figures and linked bi
What you can do
Search papers by topic, keyword, author or linked gene, protein or disease entity, with titles, TLDRs and links in each hit. Fetch a paper's full metadata, including authors, abstract, TLDR, key findings, citation count, code and model links and peer reviews. Explore the citation graph: papers that cite a work and papers it references, plus semantically similar papers. Retrieve a paper's full body text as Markdown for questions an abstract cannot answer. Get figure images with labels and captions, and biomedical entities such as genes, diseases, mutations and clinical-trial IDs. Resolve a gene or protein name to its UniProt accession and 3D structure model.
When to use it
Useful for literature reviews, finding related or follow-up work, and answering detailed questions that need a paper's methods or results rather than its abstract. Also suited to biomedical research that links papers to genes, diseases and protein structures.
Requirements
A remote MCP endpoint reached over streamable HTTP; no package, environment variables or headers are declared. Network access to the endpoint is needed.
Before you install
Citation coverage for 2024 and later is described as sparse while indexing continues, so recent impact may be understated. Figure availability is uneven: most biomedical papers have figures, arXiv papers often do not. No authentication is declared, so avoid sending confidential material.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.
Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.
Use with an agent
Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.
Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.tomesphere%2Ftomesphere/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.
Search 8.5 million academic papers (arXiv + biomedical: PMC / bioRxiv / medRxiv, all disciplines) by topic, keyword, author, or linked entity (gene / protein / disease). Each hit returns id, title, TLDR, type, and links. Use to find papers about a topic, e.g. 'transformer efficiency' or 'CRISPR base editing'.
Parameterskqueryrequiredyear_maxyear_min
get_paper
Get paper
Fetch a paper's full metadata: title, authors, year, abstract, TLDR (LLM-generated), key findings, citation count, GitHub repos, HuggingFace models/datasets, videos, peer reviews, and links. Accepts an arXiv ID (e.g. '2401.12345' or '1706.03762v5') or an OpenAlex Work ID (e.g. 'W4390723197'). Use when the user names a specific paper or pastes an arXiv link.
Parametersidrequired
similar_papers
Similar papers
Find papers semantically similar to a given paper using SPECTER2 embeddings (trained on scientific-citation triplets). Returns nearest neighbors with TLDR. Use when the user wants 'papers like X' or 'what's adjacent to this work'.
Parameterskidrequired
citations
Citing papers
Get papers that cite the given paper (who refers to this work). Use when the user asks 'who cites X', 'what's the impact', or wants follow-up work. Note: 2024+ citation coverage is sparse; indexing in progress.
Parameterskidrequired
references
References
Get the papers that this paper cites (its bibliography). Use when the user asks 'what does X cite' or 'show me the references'.
Parameterskidrequired
get_full_text
Get full text
Fetch a paper's full body text as Markdown (methods, results, protocols, inline tables) — use for deep questions the abstract can't answer. Accepts an arXiv ID (2401.12345), a PMC ID (PMC5339222), or a bioRxiv/medRxiv DOI (10.1101/…).
Parametersidrequired
get_figures
Get figures
Get a paper's real figure images — URLs, labels, and captions. Most biomedical papers have figures; arXiv papers often don't. Accepts an arXiv ID, PMC ID, or bioRxiv/medRxiv DOI.
Parametersidrequired
get_entities
Get linked entities
Get the biomedical entities linked to a paper: genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases, species, mutations, cell lines, and clinical-trial (NCT) IDs. Accepts an arXiv ID, PMC ID, or bioRxiv/medRxiv DOI.
Parametersidrequired
get_structure
Get 3D structure
Resolve a gene/protein name (e.g. 'TP53', 'CD44') or UniProt accession to its 3D structure — returns the UniProt accession + AlphaFold model URL (and PDB when available). Great for a gene named in a paper's entities.
Parametersnamerequired
Version history
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v0.1.0LatestSep 16, 2026
Score
83%
83% of the applicable checks met
How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.
Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
Auth declaredRequired10 pts
Tools listedRequired15 pts
DescriptionRequired15 pts
Logo10 pts
Documentation15 pts
Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.
LicenseNot applicable
A hosted service is used under its provider's terms, so no license is expected here. This check is left out of the percentage.