Melvin is a conversational voice interface for cancer genomics data

Akila R Perera; Vinay Warrier; Shwetha Sundararaman; Yi Hsiao; Soumita Ghosh; Linganesan Kularatnarajah; Jason J Pitt

doi:10.1038/s42003-023-05688-z

Melvin is a conversational voice interface for cancer genomics data

Commun Biol. 2024 Jan 5;7(1):30. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05688-z.

Authors

Akila R Perera^{1

2}, Vinay Warrier¹, Shwetha Sundararaman¹, Yi Hsiao^{1

3}, Soumita Ghosh¹, Linganesan Kularatnarajah¹, Jason J Pitt^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
² School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. jason.j.pitt@nus.edu.sg.
⁵ NUS Centre for Cancer Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. jason.j.pitt@nus.edu.sg.
⁶ Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore. jason.j.pitt@nus.edu.sg.

Abstract

Despite large collections of cancer genomics data being openly available, the inability to quickly interrogate this information remains a barrier for researchers and oncologists. Here we present Melvin, an Amazon Alexa skill to explore cancer genomics data through simple conversations.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Communication*
Neoplasms* / genetics