biotope vs phylokit-mcp
biotope is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑19.
biotope is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by BioCypher Team. No marketplace we read lists it any more. phylokit-mcp is an MCP server published by musharna. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-27. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  phylokit-mcp | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace biocypher/biotope | Removed on 2026-10-19 Version: 0.10.0 Forks (GitHub): 4 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.8.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 522 Downloads/week (PyPI): 88 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | biotopeno longer listed · | phylokit-mcp |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 4 | 0 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 4 | 0 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-26 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (phylokit-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 2, secrets among them: 0 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 2 | Not a bundle |
| Licence | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/biocypher/biotope | github.com/musharna/phylokit-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of biotope
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Deterministic Software Graph analysis via Ontoly CLI and MCP
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Construct, inspect, visualize, and simulate evidence-backed ODE models with BioMASS
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197 ready-to-use life sciences skills that turn Claude into a domain expert for genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, biostatistics, scientific computing, and scientific writing…
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editing-obo-ontologies
Skills and tools for editing OBO format ontologies
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biology-research
Genomics and bioinformatics, from data analysis to publication.
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robot-obo-tool
Skills for using ROBOT, the OBO ontology command-line toolkit for reasoning, templates, quality control, and ontology manipulation
What each says it does
biotope
Source curation and typed Python graph construction with Biotope and BioCypher.
phylokit-mcp
Phylogenetic inference via IQ-TREE 3 — never returns a topology without its support
How to run each
biotope
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
phylokit-mcp As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio phylokit-mcp -- uvx phylokit-mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of biotope publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: biotope · What it can do: phylokit-mcp · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.