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 | |
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Known for | Biomedical Ontologies |
Awards | Fellow of the AAAS[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Website | berkeleybop |
Lewis has Master of Science degrees in Biology and Computer science.[5]
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.
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]
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