Drive a running Cytoscape Desktop to load, lay out, and style biological networks.
Runs locally over stdio
This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).
Distributed as an MCP bundle (`https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape-desktop-mcp/releases/download/mcpb-v1.0.3/cytoscape-mcp.mcpb`) — download it and import the bundle in your MCP client.
Run
npx -y @cytoscape/cytoscape-desktop-mcp-bridge
MCP client config
{
"mcpServers": {
"cytoscape-desktop-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cytoscape/cytoscape-desktop-mcp-bridge"
]
}
}
}