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Arca Life Sciences

MCP serverVerified domain · arca.incRemote● LiveFree to try

Free, no-key search of PubMed, FDA drug and device records and ClinicalTrials.gov, with citations.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to app.arca.inc. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http arca-life-sciences https://app.arca.inc/api/public/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_medical — Hybrid keyword + semantic search over Arca's mirrored public-source corpus: FDA drug labels, Drugs@FDA approvals, complete response letters,
  • search_papers — Ranked PubMed literature search: Arca's paper index fused with PubMed Best Match, with citation and open-access metadata from OpenAlex. Retu
  • fetch_source_record — Read the indexed text of one public-source record by its recordId (returned by search_medical). Use after search when the excerpt is not eno
  • list_datasets — Describe the corpus this server searches: the source lanes search_medical accepts in sourceTypes, with the underlying mirrored datasets in e

KitScout test notes

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