BioStudies

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EBI BioStudies — search and retrieve metadata for biological study descriptions linking across EBI archives (ArrayExpress, PRIDE, etc.).

2 tools
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Tools

search_studies

Search EBI BioStudies — a keyless database of biological study descriptions that links across EBI archives (ArrayExpress, PRIDE, etc.). Find studies by keyword and get accession, title, authors, type,

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get_study

Get the metadata for a single EBI BioStudies study by accession (e.g. "S-EPMC6010251"). Returns the title, flattened attributes (abstract, release date, data source, etc.), and counts of links and sub

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/biostudies/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/biostudies/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_studies","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_studies", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("ebi biostudies — search and retrieve metadata for biological study descriptions linking across ebi archives (arrayexpress, pride, etc");