Scanpy
FreeNot checkedProvides natural language access to single-cell RNA sequencing analysis through Scanpy, enabling bioinformatics workflows like clustering, dimensionality reduct
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Provides natural language access to single-cell RNA sequencing analysis through Scanpy, enabling bioinformatics workflows like clustering, dimensionality reduction, and cell type annotation without writing code.
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⚠️ Important Notice: This repository is no longer maintained. Please visit SCMCPHub for the latest version of MCP servers.
SCMCP
An MCP server for scRNA-Seq analysis with natural language!
🪩 What can it do?
- IO module like read and write scRNA-Seq data with natural language
- Preprocessing module,like filtering, quality control, normalization, scaling, highly-variable genes, PCA, Neighbors,...
- Tool module, like clustering, differential expression etc.
- Plotting module, like violin, heatmap, dotplot
- cell-cell communication analysis
❓ Who is this for?
- Anyone who wants to do scRNA-Seq analysis natural language!
- Agent developers who want to call scanpy's functions for their applications
🌐 Where to use it?
You can use scmcp in most AI clients, plugins, or agent frameworks that support the MCP:
- AI clients, like Cherry Studio
- Plugins, like Cline
- Agent frameworks, like Agno
🎬 Demo
A demo showing scRNA-Seq cell cluster analysis in a AI client Cherry Studio using natural language based on scmcp
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/93a8fcd8-aa38-4875-a147-a5eeff22a559
🏎️ Quickstart
Install
Install from PyPI
pip install scmcp
you can test it by running
scmcp run
run scnapy-server locally
Refer to the following configuration in your MCP client:
"mcpServers": {
"scmcp": {
"command": "scmcp",
"args": [
"run"
]
}
}
run scnapy-server remotely
Refer to the following configuration in your MCP client:
run it in your server
scmcp run --transport sse --port 8000
Then configure your MCP client, like this:
http://localhost:8000/sse
🤝 Contributing
If you have any questions, welcome to submit an issue, or contact me([email protected]). Contributions to the code are also welcome!
Installing Scanpy
This server has no published package — it is built from source. Open the repository and follow its README.
▸ github.com/huang-sh/scmcpFAQ
Is Scanpy MCP free?
Yes, Scanpy MCP is free — one-click install via Unyly at no cost.
Does Scanpy need an API key?
No, Scanpy runs without API keys or environment variables.
Is Scanpy hosted or self-hosted?
Self-hosted: the server runs locally on your machine via the install command above.
How do I install Scanpy in Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor?
Open Scanpy on unyly.org, pick your client tab (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) and press Install — the config is generated automatically, no JSON editing.
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