Melvin is a conversational voice interface for cancer genomics data.

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. Melvin is a multi-modal Amazon Alexa skill that allows users to quickly explore cancer genomics data from TCGA through simple conversations.