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MCP in bio workflows

Claude-hosted Coding Agents and MCP Integration

Section titled “Claude-hosted Coding Agents and MCP Integration”

Claude-hosted coding agents can natively call MCP servers — a practical bridge into ECL/Benchling/LabOS-style integrations when MCP endpoints exist. Anthropic

MCP in Bio Workflows: Explicit vs Enabling

Section titled “MCP in Bio Workflows: Explicit vs Enabling”

MCP in bio workflows (explicit vs enabling):

  • FROGENT explicitly uses MCP in a drug-discovery agent
  • MCPmed proposes a community push to MCP-enable bioinformatics services
  • ToolUniverse (Zitnik Lab, HMS) advertises 211+ biomedical tools already exposed via MCP for “AI Scientist” agents

See: agentic biotechnology workflows