`taxonomy_search`

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

“NCBI taxonomy ID for [organism]” / “taxid for [species]” / “look up [Latin name] in NCBI taxonomy” — search NCBI Taxonomy via UniProt’s mirror. Returns taxonomic IDs you can use as organism_id filters in search (9606 = human, 10090 = mouse, 7227 = D. melanogaster, etc).

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes
`size`	number	no

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "human"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uniprot/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"taxonomy_search","arguments":{"query":"human"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

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

const result = await pipeworx.call('taxonomy_search', {
  "query": "human"
});

More examples

{
  "query": "mus musculus",
  "size": 5
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`results`	array	Array of taxonomy entries
`facets`	array	Search facets

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "NCBI taxonomy search results",
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Array of taxonomy entries",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "Taxonomy result"
      }
    },
    "facets": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Search facets"
    }
  }
}

Connect

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

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

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

taxonomy_search