Suzanna Lewis

Suzanna (Suzi) E. Lewis was a scientist and Principal investigator at the Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Project based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory until her retirement in 2019. Lewis led the development of open standards and software for genome annotation and ontologies.^[2][3][4]

Suzanna Lewis
Known for	Biomedical Ontologies
Awards	Fellow of the AAAS[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Website	berkeleybop.github.io/people/suzanna-lewis/

Education

Lewis has Master of Science degrees in Biology and Computer science.^[5]

Research

She led the team responsible for the systematic annotation^[6] of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, which included development of the Gadfly^[7] annotation pipeline and database framework, and the annotation curation tool Apollo.^[8] Lewis' work in genome annotation also includes playing instrumental roles in the GASP^[9] community assessment exercises to evaluate the state of the art in genome annotation, development of the Gbrowse^[10] genome browser, and the data coordination center for the modENCODE project.^[11] In addition to her work in genome annotation, Lewis has been a leader in the development of Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO),^[12] National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO),^[13][14] contributing to the Gene Ontology^[15] Sequence Ontology,^[16] Uberon anatomy ontologies,^[17] and developing open software for editing and navigating ontologies such as AmiGO,^[18] OBO-Edit^[19] and Phenote.

Awards and honors

In 2005 Lewis was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of her contributions to science in the fields of Information, Computing, and Communication.^[1]