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Liana-MCP

Liana-MCP

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github.com/scmcphubScience & Education1Updated 70w ago

About Liana-MCP

Liana-MCP provides a natural-language MCP interface to Liana for scRNA-seq analysis. It is intended for researchers and agent developers, with tools for data input/output, cell–cell communication analysis, and plots.

Key features

  1. 01Read and write scRNA-seq data
  2. 02Analyze cell–cell communication
  3. 03Create circle plots and dotplots

Use cases

  1. 01Analyze scRNA-seq data through natural-language requests
  2. 02Call Liana analysis functions from an agent application

MCP support

It exposes Liana-based scRNA-seq data handling, cell–cell communication analysis, and plotting to MCP clients. It can run locally or over HTTP.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

No install method listed yet

We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.

Repository

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

Liana-MCP

Natural language interface for scRNA-Seq analysis with Liana through MCP.

🪩 What can it do?

  • IO module like read and write scRNA-Seq data
  • Cell-cell communication method
  • Plotting module, circle plot, dotplot

❓ Who is this for?

  • Anyone who wants to do scRNA-Seq analysis natural language!
  • Agent developers who want to call Liana's functions for their applications

🌐 Where to use it?

You can use Liana-mcp in most AI clients, plugins, or agent frameworks that support the MCP:

  • AI clients, like Cherry Studio
  • Plugins, like Cline
  • Agent frameworks, like Agno

🎬 Demo

A demo showing scRNA-Seq cell cluster analysis in a AI client Cherry Studio using natural language based on Liana-mcp

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/40fb5bd8-a166-4993-9979-3258ef6646a0

📚 Documentation

scmcphub's complete documentation is available at https://docs.scmcphub.org

🏎️ Quickstart

Install

Install from PyPI

pip install liana-mcp

you can test it by running

liana-mcp run
run liana-mcp locally

Refer to the following configuration in your MCP client:

check path

$ which liana 
/home/test/bin/liana-mcp
"mcpServers": {
  "liana-mcp": {
    "command": "/home/test/bin/liana-mcp",
    "args": [
      "run"
    ]
  }
}
run liana-server remotely

Refer to the following configuration in your MCP client:

run it in your server

liana-mcp run --transport shttp --port 8000

Then configure your MCP client in local AI client, like this:


"mcpServers": {
  "liana-mcp": {
    "url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp"
  }
}

🤝 Contributing

If you have any questions, welcome to submit an issue, or contact me([email protected]). Contributions to the code are also welcome!

Citing

If you use liana-mcp in for your research, please consider citing following work:

Dimitrov D., Schäfer P.S.L, Farr E., Rodriguez Mier P., Lobentanzer S., Badia-i-Mompel P., Dugourd A., Tanevski J., Ramirez Flores R.O. and Saez-Rodriguez J. LIANA+ provides an all-in-one framework for cell–cell communication inference. Nat Cell Biol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01469-w

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