Who it is for
Computational researchers evaluating consortium datasets before download.
AI Connectors · Healthcare & Life Sciences
Synapse.org
Discover Synapse research datasets and read their metadata
Overview
What Synapse.org does
Synapse, run by Sage Bionetworks, hosts data from collaborative research projects covering genomics, imaging and clinical measurement across cancer, neurodegenerative and rare disease work. The connector is scoped to discovery rather than transfer: searching for datasets, navigating project hierarchies, and reading metadata and provenance so what a dataset actually contains is known before anyone downloads it. Data use restrictions attached to individual Synapse projects remain the caller's responsibility, and the listing links both to Synapse terms of service and to Anthropic's data handling documentation. Five tools are declared and the endpoint requires credentials.
Tool surface
Five tools cover search and metadata by the listing's account, and since Synapse access is governed per project, the 401 in front of tools/list follows from that model.
Availability
Where Synapse.org is listed
Synapse.org is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Sage Bionetworks has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Synapse.org publishes 5 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 22.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Healthcare & Life Sciences publishes 6, so this one sits one tool below its bucket's median, 30th of 51.
It falls in the 4-6 tools band, which holds 16.2% of the Claude directory.
Synapse.org publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Sage Bionetworks
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Health & Life Sciences
- Endpoint
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https://mcp.synapse.org/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 5 · 4-6 tools band
- Depth rank in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- 30 of 51
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Synapse.org carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Sage Bionetworks describes it
Discover and explore scientific datasets from collaborative research projects. Search Synapse for genomics, imaging, clinical data on cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, rare diseases, and more. Navigate project hierarchies and get detailed metadata and provenance to understand what datasets contain before you download. When using an MCP server with Claude, please review Anthropic's data handling policies to understand how your data is processed: • [Consumer accounts](https://privacy.claude.com/en/collections/10672565-data-handling-retention) • [Commercial accounts](https://privacy.claude.com/en/collections/10672411-data-handling-retention) You remain responsible for compliance with any data use restrictions and Synapse [Terms of Service](https://www.synapse.org/TrustCenter:TermsOfService)
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Synapse.org's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Sage Bionetworks, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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