What is ChemMCP?
ChemMCP is a continuously updated collection of chemistry tools for LLMs and AI assistants, compatible with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). ChemMCP provides:
Professional Chemistry Tools
ChemMCP equips you and your AI assistants with advanced tools to predict molecules and reactions, analyze chemical data, and explore scientific knowledge. Discover the full range in our tool directory.
Effortless Integration with MCP
Easily supercharge your LLM clientsāsuch as Claude, GPT, and moreāusing ChemMCP. With MCP, integrating powerful chemistry tools into your workflow takes just minutes via a simple JSON configuration.
Seamless Support for Python
ChemMCP is also available as a Python package, enabling seamless integration into your projects for data analysis, agent development, or custom applicationsāideal for researchers, developers, and innovators.
Where to Start?
Follow the steps below to embrace ChemMCP:
About Us
ChemMCP is an open-source project developed by the OSU NLP Group and led by Botao Yu. We're pioneering the integration of advanced chemistry tools with large language models, bridging the gap between computational chemistry and AI. Our vision is to democratize access to sophisticated chemistry tools, empowering researchers and practitioners to tackle complex scientific challenges with the assistance of AI technology.
Citations
If ChemMCP is valuable to your research or development, please kindly cite our works:
@misc{yu2025chemmcp,
author = {Botao Yu and Huan Sun},
title = {ChemMCP: A Chemistry MCP Toolkit},
year = {2025},
url = {https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/ChemMCP},
}
@article{yu2024chemtoolagent,
title={ChemToolAgent: The Impact of Tools on Language Agents for Chemistry Problem Solving},
author={Botao Yu and Frazier N. Baker and Ziru Chen and Garrett Herb and Boyu Gou and Daniel Adu-Ampratwum and Xia Ning and Huan Sun},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.07228},
year={2024}
}