With the availability of reliable and low-cost DNA sequencing, human genomics is relevant to a growing number of end-users, including biologists and clinicians. Typical interactions require applying comparative data analysis to huge repositories of genomic information for building new knowledge, taking advantage of the latest findings in applied genomics for healthcare. Powerful technology for data extraction and analysis is available, but broad use of the technology is hampered by the complexity of accessing such methods and tools.This work presents GeCoAgent, a big-data service for clinicians and biologists. GeCoAgent uses a dialogic interface, animated by a chatbot, for supporting the end-users' interaction with computational tools accompanied by multi-modal support. While the dialogue progresses, the user is accompanied in extracting the relevant data from repositories and then performing data analysis, which often requires the use of statistical methods or machine learning. Results are returned using simple representations (spreadsheets and graphics), while at the end of a session the dialogue is summarized in textual format. The innovation presented in this article is concerned with not only the delivery of a new tool but also our novel approach to conversational technologies, potentially extensible to other healthcare domains or to general data science.

Crovari, P., Pidò, S., Pinoli, P., Bernasconi, A., Canakoglu, A., Garzotto, F., et al. (2022). GeCoAgent: A Conversational Agent for Empowering Genomic Data Extraction and Analysis. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING FOR HEALTHCARE, 3(1), 1-29 [10.1145/3464383].

GeCoAgent: A Conversational Agent for Empowering Genomic Data Extraction and Analysis

Garzotto, Franca;
2022

Abstract

With the availability of reliable and low-cost DNA sequencing, human genomics is relevant to a growing number of end-users, including biologists and clinicians. Typical interactions require applying comparative data analysis to huge repositories of genomic information for building new knowledge, taking advantage of the latest findings in applied genomics for healthcare. Powerful technology for data extraction and analysis is available, but broad use of the technology is hampered by the complexity of accessing such methods and tools.This work presents GeCoAgent, a big-data service for clinicians and biologists. GeCoAgent uses a dialogic interface, animated by a chatbot, for supporting the end-users' interaction with computational tools accompanied by multi-modal support. While the dialogue progresses, the user is accompanied in extracting the relevant data from repositories and then performing data analysis, which often requires the use of statistical methods or machine learning. Results are returned using simple representations (spreadsheets and graphics), while at the end of a session the dialogue is summarized in textual format. The innovation presented in this article is concerned with not only the delivery of a new tool but also our novel approach to conversational technologies, potentially extensible to other healthcare domains or to general data science.
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Conversational agents; genomic computing; natural language understanding;
English
15-ott-2021
2022
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Crovari, P., Pidò, S., Pinoli, P., Bernasconi, A., Canakoglu, A., Garzotto, F., et al. (2022). GeCoAgent: A Conversational Agent for Empowering Genomic Data Extraction and Analysis. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING FOR HEALTHCARE, 3(1), 1-29 [10.1145/3464383].
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