bioportal_ontologies

Pack: bioportal · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bioportal/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/bioportal_ontologies for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

List the biomedical ontologies BioPortal carries — acronym, full name and type — so you can pick the right vocabulary acronym before searching or looking up a class. AUTHORITATIVE catalogue of what is available in BioPortal. Pass filter to narrow by acronym or name substring.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
filterstringnoCase-insensitive substring of the acronym or name (e.g. “snomed”, “cancer”)
limitnumbernoMax ontologies to return, 1-200 (default 50)

Example call

Arguments

{
  "filter": "snomed",
  "limit": 10
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bioportal/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"bioportal_ontologies","arguments":{"filter":"snomed","limit":10}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('bioportal_ontologies', {
  "filter": "snomed",
  "limit": 10
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bioportal": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bioportal/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

Regenerated from source · build September 18, 2026