Rcsb Pdb Mcp

Lets an assistant look up protein structures and search the RCSB Protein Data Bank without an API key.

What you can do

This server connects an assistant to the RCSB Protein Data Bank so it can look up protein structures and run searches against that public structural biology archive. It runs locally over stdio as an npm package. The registry description lists no individual tools, so the exact operations are not documented here.

When to use it

Worth adding when a task involves protein structures or structural biology records and you want the assistant to query the RCSB Protein Data Bank directly instead of relying on general knowledge. Less useful if your work does not touch protein structure data.

Requirements

Runs as a local process on the user's machine, installed from the npm package rcsb-pdb-mcp over stdio, so a Node.js runtime is needed. Desktop only; no web execution. No API key, environment variables, or headers are declared, but network access to the RCSB Protein Data Bank is implied by the lookups.