About bioRxiv & medRxiv
Search preprints by keyword or author, list what was posted or revised in a date range for a subject category, fetch metadata, abstract, revision history and full-text links by DOI, and resolve a preprint to its later journal publication. Preprints are not peer reviewed; the agent should say so when citing them.
Questions you can ask bioRxiv & medRxiv
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once bioRxiv & medRxiv is connected.
“What was posted on bioRxiv in neuroscience last week about sleep and memory consolidation?”
What comes back: Preprints with DOIs, posting dates and abstracts, clearly labelled as not peer reviewed.
“Has this medRxiv preprint since been published in a journal?”
What comes back: The published version’s DOI and journal, when one exists.
bioRxiv & medRxiv MCP tools
The 7 tools the bioRxiv & medRxiv server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
biorxiv_list_categoriesList valid subject category strings for bioRxiv and medRxiv - the categories the listing API actually filters on.
biorxiv_list_recentList preprints posted or revised within a date interval, optionally scoped to one server or a subject category.
biorxiv_get_preprintFetch full metadata, the abstract, all revision history, JATS XML full-text links, and published-journal DOI for one or more preprints by DOI.
biorxiv_get_published_versionResolve a DOI to its preprint-to-journal crosswalk record - preprint DOI, journal DOI, journal name, published date, and corresponding author details - from either side: a prepr...
biorxiv_list_published_versionsList preprints that appeared as journal articles within a journal publication-date interval, each with its journal DOI, journal name, publication date, and preprint metadata - t...
biorxiv_search_preprintsSearch preprints by keyword and/or author using EuropePMC for relevance ranking, then enrich matching DOIs with full bioRxiv/medRxiv metadata.
biorxiv_get_fulltextRetrieve a preprint's full text as best-effort Markdown, extracted from its rendered HTML article page.
Using bioRxiv & medRxiv in Kahubi
- Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
- Beta. The server works, but answers can be slower and its tools may still change.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to bioRxiv & medRxiv.
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