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Example requests

Gene & protein lookup

You say to your agent

Summarise TP53 isoforms, their domains and the pathways they act in.

IDs, function, domains, pathways and partners

Protein structures

You say to your agent

Get the best available structure for human EGFR and its resolution.

Structure files, method, resolution and confidence

Clinical trials search

You say to your agent

List recruiting phase 3 trials of GLP-1 agonists for heart failure.

NCT ID, phase, status, sponsor, outcomes

Why an agent, not another app?

You already write and think with Claude or ChatGPT. There is no other app to switch to: you add academic data tools to the agent you have.

Over MCP (Model Context Protocol) the agent queries academic databases directly, and the records it gets back carry their source and licence, so you can check them.

Frequently asked questions

From the official databases named on each capability. Every record comes back with its source, licence and attribution line, so you can check it and cite it.

Add ScholarMuse to an agent that supports MCP, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor, and approve the connection in your browser. The connect page has the steps for each agent.

Every call your agent makes uses credits, and a call is charged only when it succeeds. There are no subscriptions. A new account starts with a one-time gift of 50 credits. The 6 web tools under /tools are free without an account, up to 5 runs a day.

Requests are used only to answer you. We do not train models on them.

Ready to make your agent a better scholar?

Connect once. Papers, data and figures from 50+ sources, in the agent you already use.

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Data from OpenAlex · Crossref · PubMed · arXiv · NIH · UniProt · PDB · PubChem · NASA · World Bank · USGS · GBIF and more