lookup_symbol

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declared in 0.1.0

"What's the Ensembl ID for [gene symbol]" / "look up [gene] in Ensembl" / "BRCA1 / TP53 / BRAF Ensembl info" / "find gene [symbol] in [species]" — look up a gene by symbol within a species (e.g. species="human" symbol="BRCA1"). Returns Ensembl gene ID, chromosomal position, biotype, description. Use to convert HGNC gene symbols to Ensembl IDs for genomics workflows.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "examples": [
    {
      "symbol": "BRAF",
      "species": "human"
    },
    {
      "expand": true,
      "symbol": "Braf",
      "species": "mus_musculus"
    }
  ],
  "required": [
    "species",
    "symbol"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "expand": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "symbol": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "species": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "e.g. \"human\", \"mus_musculus\""
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 1 endpoint

min confidence0.70 0.50

Data resourceEnsembl Genome Browser
EMBL-EBI · scientific-data
name mention0.85

Parent server

Ensembl

https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-ensembl

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