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ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is the default public registry for structured trial discovery, which makes it the most practical source when you need to move from a condition or biomarker to live recruiting studies quickly. It is the source most clinicians, coordinators, and patients already recognize, so its identifiers and status labels carry well across teams.

This page covers BioMCP's default trial backend. BioMCP also supports --source nci for NCI CTS, but that is a separate boundary with different access rules and should not be conflated with the default ClinicalTrials.gov path.

What BioMCP exposes

Command What BioMCP gets from this source Integration note
search trial Filtered trial search with condition, status, biomarker, and pagination controls Default backend is ClinicalTrials.gov v2
get trial <nct_id> Trial summary card for a specific NCT record Uses the default ClinicalTrials.gov detail path
get trial <nct_id> eligibility Inclusion and exclusion criteria text Section expansion from the same trial record
get trial <nct_id> locations Facility and contact rows Uses site data from the default backend
get trial <nct_id> outcomes Primary and secondary outcome measures Detail-section view
get trial <nct_id> arms Study arms and interventions Detail-section view
get trial <nct_id> references Linked publications and citations when present Detail-section view

Example commands

biomcp search trial -c melanoma --status recruiting --limit 3

Returns a trial table with NCT ID, title, status, phase, and condition columns.

biomcp search trial -c melanoma --mutation "BRAF V600E" --limit 3

Returns a filtered trial table with the mutation echoed in the query summary.

biomcp get trial NCT02576665

Returns a trial card with the NCT heading, status, and condition context.

biomcp get trial NCT02576665 eligibility

Returns an eligibility section with inclusion and exclusion criteria text.

biomcp get trial NCT02576665 locations --limit 3

Returns a locations table with facility, city, country, status, and contact fields.

API access

No BioMCP API key required.

Official source

ClinicalTrials.gov is the official public registry and API surface behind BioMCP's default trial workflow.