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NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) MCP.

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

list_projects

List NCI Genomic Data Commons cancer-genomics projects (TCGA, TARGET, CPTAC, etc.), ranked by case count. Returns project_id, name, program, primary site(s) and disease type(s). Keyless, open-access m

No parameters required.

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get_project

Look up a single NCI GDC project by project_id (e.g. "TCGA-BRCA") and get its details plus summary counts (case_count, file_count). Keyless, open-access metadata.

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search_cases

Search NCI GDC cancer cases (patients/samples) by primary site and/or project. Returns case_id, submitter_id, primary site, disease type and project_id. Keyless, open-access metadata.

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search_files

Search NCI GDC genomic data files by project and/or data category (e.g. "Transcriptome Profiling", "Simple Nucleotide Variation", "DNA Methylation"). Returns file_id, file_name, data category/type/for

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdc/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdc/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_projects","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("list_projects", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("nci genomic data commons (gdc) mcp");