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.
[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.
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.