Target-disease evidence from Open Targets, without learning its data model.

For target research it handles the query-writing: gene, disease and drug names become Platform IDs, and one question can run across a whole list of genes or drugs at once.

What it is

The Open Targets consortium's own MCP server, hosted at mcp.platform.opentargets.org. It answers questions from the Open Targets Platform, a public resource for finding and ranking drug targets. It needs no sign-in or key, and Open Targets says it is under active development.

What you get

Genes, diseases, drugs, variants and studies looked up by their common names
Any question the Platform's data can answer, run as a query: target-disease links, drug mechanisms, safety and genetic evidence
The same question asked for many genes, drugs or diseases in one go
The parts of the Platform's data model that a question needs, so the agent builds the right query

Requirements

An MCP client that can reach a remote address. Anthropic publishes a tutorial for adding it to Claude as a connector. You can also run it on your own machine with uvx or Docker, as the project's GitHub repository explains.

Setup effort

Paste a URL — add the endpoint to your client