Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery MCP for your AI app

Noodle, from Helena, searches a public PubMed-derived corpus of biomedical papers and walks their citation and semantic graphs. Through its MCP server, your AI app can find papers, pull full publication records and see what sits around a PMID. ContextGate connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor without a sign-in and logs each literature search in Activity.

  • Ready to connect
  • Free
  • 7 example tools

Add Noodle literature search to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
  2. 2Six of the seven tools read public literature data. `support_helena` only returns information about a separate Helena MCP, so switch it off if you want your AI app to stick to research.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Give your AI app a PMID and ask what cites it or sits near it, then open Activity to see the `get_publication_neighborhood` call.

Literature work for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  • Search the biomedical corpus by meaning with `search_biomedical_literature`, anchoring on a PMID, DOI or PMCID when you have one.
  • Pull a complete bibliographic record by PMID with `get_publication_details`.
  • Explore the citation and semantic neighborhood around a paper to find related work.
  • Check the corpus's coverage, sources and freshness with `get_corpus_summary` before you treat a missing paper as a gap.

Noodle states that its results are for literature discovery and professional review, not diagnosis or treatment.

Research calls your workspace can see

  • Switch off any Noodle tool you don't use; your AI app won't see it and calls to it are refused.
  • A policy can hide patient names or other personal details pasted into a search before it reaches Noodle.
  • Activity lists every search and record lookup, which helps when you write up how you found a source.

What you get with Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use Noodle Biomedical Literature DiscoveryClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.