Connect Talindrew to Claude
Talindrew's MCP server gives Claude a molecular biology toolkit: plasmid maps, restriction digests and gels, primer and CRISPR design, PubMed search, your saved sequences and lab notebook, and structure prediction. Add Talindrew as a custom connector once; it works in claude.ai, the desktop app and on mobile.
Server URL
https://mcp.talindrew.com/mcpAuthentication: OAuth; Claude uses its published client identity (CIMD), so there is nothing to register.
Set it up
- Open Customize → Connectors (claude.ai/customize/connectors), click + Add → Add custom connector.
- Name it Talindrew, paste https://mcp.talindrew.com/mcp and click Add (leave authentication on “Sign in now”).
- Click Connect, sign in with Google and click Allow. New to Talindrew? That sign-in creates your free account.
- In a chat, ask for something Talindrew does; approve the tool when Claude asks.
First things to ask
Use Talindrew to find the restriction sites in pUC19 and show me the map.With Talindrew, design PCR primers for bases 100-600 of this sequence: <paste DNA>Ask Talindrew for the melting temperature of CGTTGTAAAACGACGGCCAGTGAAT.Search PubMed with Talindrew for recent Golden Gate assembly protocols.
Other ways to connect
- Team and Enterprise: an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web; members then click Connect.
- Connectors you add on the web also appear in the desktop and mobile apps, and in Claude Code.
- Free plans allow one custom connector.
Remove or sign in again
Customize → Connectors → Talindrew → ⋯ → Remove. To reload the tool list after an update: ⋯ → Refresh tools list.
You can also disconnect any app from Talindrew itself under Settings → Connected apps.
Anthropic's documentation: support.claude.com
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Talindrew is a remote MCP server at https://mcp.talindrew.com/mcp. Claude connects to it over Streamable HTTP and signs in with OAuth; OAuth; Claude uses its published client identity (CIMD), so there is nothing to register.
Yes. Claude renders MCP Apps, so Talindrew's maps, gels, primer tables and alignments appear as interactive panels in the chat, each with a link that opens the result in the Talindrew app.
Yes, to start. Connecting is free, and the sequence analysis, primer, CRISPR, literature and lab-notebook tools include 25 calls a week on the free plan; Plus ($9 a month, 7-day free trial) makes them unlimited. Structure prediction and FoldRx drug-discovery runs use the monthly allowance of a Pro or Max plan, exactly as in the app.
Try: "Use Talindrew to find the restriction sites in pUC19 and show me the map." or "Ask Talindrew for the melting temperature of CGTTGTAAAACGACGGCCAGTGAAT." Talindrew has 90 tools covering sequence analysis, digests and gels, primers, CRISPR guides, protein properties, cloning reactions in a workspace, PubMed and Europe PMC, NCBI Gene, Addgene, your saved sequences and notebook, and structure prediction.
Other apps
Start free
Free includes 25 tool calls a week; Plus ($9/month) makes them unlimited. Pro and Max add structure prediction and FoldRx.