VFB-MCP: Natural-Language Access to Drosophila Neuroscience Grounded by an Expert-Curated Ontology-Led Knowledgebase
Alex D. McLachlan, Rob Court, Clare Pilgrim, Kit D. Longden, Nicolas H. Brown, David Osumi-Sutherland, Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis, J. Douglas Armstrong
Model Context Protocol tools over Virtual Fly Brain's graph let Claude answer 25/30 Drosophila neuroscience tasks precisely, vs 14/30 with web search, 2/30 bare.
bioRxiv · Jul 14, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience✦ In-depth digest