What is Bio Agents Mcp

bio-agents-mcp is a collection of microservices and clients designed for natural language interaction with biological databases, including the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and ChEMBL.

Use cases

Use cases include querying protein structures, chemical properties, and facilitating research in genomics and drug discovery.

How to use

To use bio-agents-mcp, configure the environment by copying the example environment file, start the services using make commands, and launch the web interface to query biological data.

Key features

Key features include a natural language interface via the LLM Client, dedicated API services for Protein Data Bank and ChEMBL, and support for asynchronous operations.

Where to use

bio-agents-mcp can be used in life sciences, bioinformatics, and research environments where interaction with biological data is required.

Bio-Agents MCP

A collection of microservices and clients for natural language interaction with biological databases.

Components

• LLM Client: Natural language interface with web UI and terminal modes
• PDB MCP Server: Protein Data Bank API service
• ChEMBL MCP Server: Chemical database API service

Architecture

┌─────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐
│   LLM UI    │     │  Ollama LLM  │
│  (Chainlit) │     │              │
└─────┬───────┘     └───────┬──────┘
      │                     │
┌─────┴─────────────────────┴──────┐
│           LLM Client             │
└─────┬─────────────────────┬──────┘
      │                     │
┌─────┴───────┐     ┌──────┴───────┐
│  PDB MCP    │     │  ChEMBL MCP  │
│   Server    │     │    Server    │
└─────────────┘     └──────────────┘

Quick Start

1. Configure environment:

cp .env.example .env

2. Start services:

make build
make up

3. Launch web interface:

make run-chainlit

Visit http://localhost:8000 to start querying biological data.

Development

• Use make help to see available commands
• Each service has its own README with detailed documentation
• Configuration files are in conf/ directory

Description

This project contains multiple modules that interact with various services and APIs using the FastMCP framework. Each module is designed to perform specific tasks and can be run independently or together using Docker Compose. The primary focus of this project is on bio agents, providing tools and services to interact with biological data sources such as the Protein Data Bank (PDB).

Modules

LLM Client

The llm-client module provides a client that interacts with a Language Model (LLM) server to process queries and utilize available tools. It is built using the FastMCP framework and supports asynchronous operations with aiohttp.

For more details, refer to the LLM Client README.

Protein Data Bank

The protein_data_bank_mcp module provides a server that interacts with the Protein Data Bank (PDB) API to fetch structural assembly descriptions, chemical components, drugbank annotations, branched entities, non-polymer entities, polymer entities, uniprot annotations, structures, pubmed annotations, pdb cluster data aggregation, aggregation group provenance, pdb cluster data aggregation method, and pairwise polymeric interface descriptions. It is built using the FastMCP framework and supports asynchronous operations with aiohttp.

For more details, refer to the Protein Data Bank README.

Docker

Dockerfiles are provided for each module to build Docker images.

• Build the Docker image:

  docker build -t <module-name> .
  

• Run the Docker container:

  docker run --env-file .env <module-name>
  

Docker Compose

A docker-compose.yml file is provided to run all services together.

• Start all services:

  docker-compose up -d
  

• Stop all services:

  docker-compose down
  

Makefile

A Makefile is provided to simplify common tasks.

• Available targets:
  • setup-env: Set up the initial environment.
  • build: Build all Docker images.
  • up: Start all services using docker-compose.
  • down: Stop all services using docker-compose.
  • restart: Restart all services using docker-compose.