mcp-proto-okn: Natural-language access to open scientific knowledge graphs through the Model Context Protocol

Ethics

Minor revisionpanel verdict · 2026-09-01

Ethics & Compliance Reviewer

SCORE: N/A CONFIDENCE: 5

Overall Assessment

This manuscript presents no ethics or compliance issues requiring review. The work is a computational tool paper describing software implementation and use cases for querying existing public knowledge graphs through natural language. No human subjects, identifiable data, clinical trials, animal research, dual-use biosafety concerns, or restricted-consent materials are involved. The paper requires no ethics approval, IRB review, animal care committee oversight, or informed consent statements. Funding is disclosed (NSF Awards 2333819 and 2535091), and no competing interests statement is needed or expected for a software tool paper of this type.

N/A REASON

This manuscript describes computational analysis of public, non-human data and software tool development. No human subjects, animal research, clinical data, biosafety-sensitive methods, or restricted-access materials are present. No ethics or compliance review dimension applies.

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