OK, DNA!

ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI), pp. 1–3

Abstract

OK, DNA! is an intuitive conversational interface designed to assist biologists and clinicians, who generally have little computer science expertise, in retrieving data from genomic databases. Through this novel technology, complex bioinformatics queries are abstracted to a dialogue interface, that does not require any specific knowledge on querying languages. The power of OK, DNA! is that it exploits the conversation with two goals - as a guide to assist biologists and clinicians during the creation of the entire search process, and as a natural language interface to formulate queries on multiple heterogeneous genomic datasets.

Authors 6

1. Fabio Catania
   Affiliation as printed

2. Pietro Pinoli

   Politecnico di Milano

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Electronics, Information and Bio-engineering - Politecnico di Milano

3. Philipp Roytburg Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University

4. Asier Salzar

   Universidad de Deusto

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Deusto

5. Franca Garzotto
   Affiliation as printed

6. Stefano Ceri

   Politecnico di Milano

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Electronics, Information and Bio-engineering - Politecnico di Milano