Dicomweb MCP Server vs Opengenes MCP

In-depth architectural comparison of the Dicomweb MCP Server and Opengenes MCP MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Dicomweb MCP Server when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: other (Free / Open Source).
• You have access to required keys: DICOMWEB_HOST.
• Primary tools included: find-studies, find-series, find-instances.

Explore Dicomweb MCP Server Details

Choose Opengenes MCP when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Read-only SQL queries against OpenGenes, Schema and enumeration introspection, Example SQL query discovery.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Dicomweb MCP Server PantelisGeorgiadis Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics	Opengenes MCP longevity-genie Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics
Summary	A DICOMweb MCP server that exposes a DICOMweb-compliant DICOM archive to AI assistants, enabling search of studies, series and instances, metadata inspection, structured report reading, encapsulated PDF text extraction, and frame rendering.	MCP server for a queryable database for aging and longevity research from the OpenGenes project.
Category & Scope

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pantelisgeorgiadis-dicomweb-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "dicomweb-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DICOMWEB_HOST": "YOUR_DICOMWEB_HOST_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "longevity-genie-opengenes-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "without"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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