HGNC Gene Names

live Utility

HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) MCP.

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

get_gene

Exact lookup of an approved human gene by its official HGNC symbol — returns the full authoritative record: approved name, locus type, chromosomal location, alias/previous symbols, gene groups, and cr

No parameters required.

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search_genes

Fuzzy search across approved symbols, names, and aliases — e.g. "breast cancer", "p53", "tumor protein". Returns lightweight matches (hgnc_id, symbol, relevance score) ranked by score; call get_gene w

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resolve_xref

Reverse-lookup: map an external database id to its canonical HGNC gene. "What gene is Entrez 672?" -> BRCA1. Accepts entrez_id, ensembl_gene_id, uniprot_ids, omim_id, refseq_accession, or ucsc_id and

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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/hgnc/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/hgnc/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_gene","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("get_gene", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("hgnc (hugo gene nomenclature committee) mcp");