Suzanne Paquette is a senior software engineer in the Thorsson-Shmulevich Laboratory at ISB. She originally intended to study plant molecular evolution, obtaining an undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona in 1998, and published a handful of articles on this topic. The rise of computers in bioscience prompted a shift in the focus of her career, and in 2005 she earned a second degree, this time in Computing and Software Systems from the University of Washington. She spent several years spent as a general IT manager at a biomedical journal, and worked in a genomics lab at the University of Washington on the NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project. In 2012 she joined Bill Longabaugh and Kalle Leinonen in the Shmulevich Lab to work on a web application version of ‘BioTapestry’, an open source program for visualizing gene regulatory networks, and transitioned to the ISB’s Cancer Genomics Cloud group, ISB-CGC, in 2015.