Claude Enrichr connectorWhat Claude can do with Enrichr.
The Claude Enrichr connector exposes 2 tools, both read. 2 read, 0 write, 0 undocumented: Claude suggests the right Enrichr libraries, runs a gene set enrichment on your list and explains the significant terms. Here is what it does, where it stops, and how it installs.
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Enrichment results you can talk through
A biologist with a list of hits usually pastes it into the Enrichr website, ticks libraries one by one and exports tables. With this desktop extension, you give the list to Claude. It can first find the libraries that fit your question, then query several of them in parallel and walk you through the terms that come out as significant.
Choosing libraries for a new topic. Working on DNA repair for the first time, a postdoc asks which Enrichr collections make sense. Claude calls suggest_libraries, which searches Enrichr's live catalogue for the best fit.
Running the analysis itself. With the gene list and the chosen libraries, enrichr_analysis queries them in parallel and returns only terms that pass the corrected p-value threshold, with odds ratios and overlapping genes.
Correcting for your real background. When the genes come from a targeted panel or one tissue, you can pass that universe as background, which the author says avoids overstating significance against the whole genome.
What it will not do: both tools read and analyse; neither writes into an account, and nothing runs on its own. Claude only calls them while it answers you. For a pipeline that reruns enrichment on every new dataset, an automation platform is the better fit, and the Integrations hub lists the ones we cover.
Five words before you install
The Claude terms this page relies on, in a minute.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an outside service, so Claude can use that service while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named job a connector opens to Claude. Claude decides by itself which ones to call; the directory sheet lists them by name.
- Authorization
- Usually the sign-in screen of the service, where you hand Claude its access. Enrichr's author documents no such screen here.
- Approval
- The go-ahead Claude waits for before it changes something in an account, shown in the conversation when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Enrichr.
Set up the Claude Enrichr connector in three steps
- 01
Open the connectors in Claude Desktop
The directory lists Enrichr as a desktop extension that works with Claude Desktop only. Open its settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and look for Enrichr there.
- 02
Add it from its row
No Claude source describes adding this extension from the list: the only documented route is the author's, in the tip below. No source describes an Enrichr sign-in either: the author documents no account step.
- 03
Check who publishes it
Before relying on it, note that the directory names an individual developer, Tianqi Tang, as publisher. Anthropic does not vouch for the tools a publisher exposes, so judge it as you would any research script.
The 2 tools, and what each one returns
Enrichr MCP Server gives Claude 2 tools: 2 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
Two tools, both described in the author's README. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 2 read
What Claude reads (2)
2 toolsTwo tools that look up Enrichr libraries and run enrichment, without touching any account.
enrichr_analysis
Runs your gene symbols against several Enrichr libraries at once and brings back the significant terms with their p-values, odds ratio, combined score and the genes that overlap. An optional background list corrects the statistics.
suggest_libraries
Finds the Enrichr libraries that best fit a research question, drawn from the live catalogue so a retired library is never suggested. The author advises calling it before the analysis.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before any action it takes on an account for you. The request appears in the conversation, at the moment it matters.
On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without a new prompt each time. They can also cap what a connector may do for the whole organization, for example keep reading and close writing, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with the access of the person who installed it and nothing more. Here, both tools only query Enrichr and return results.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory displays availability by plan. Connector by connector, that answer is not published anywhere: it is a real gap in the catalogue.
What is published is the general rule: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, while desktop extensions like this one install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner turns a connector on for the organization first. Check the sheet in the official directory for the current status. Only the author's README documents this extension.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you; nothing reruns an analysis when a new dataset lands.
The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise. The directory badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes or guarantee their behavior. Here the publisher is one individual developer, which is worth knowing before you build a figure on it. No source says either whether Claude asks for confirmation before enrichr_analysis or suggest_libraries.
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