Ten simple rules to make your computing more environmentally sustainable

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Affiliations

¹ Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
² British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
³ Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁴ Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
⁷ British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁸ The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.

Editorial

Loïc Lannelongue et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 20;17(9):e1009324.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009324. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Loïc Lannelongue^{1

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3}, Jason Grealey^{4

5}, Alex Bateman⁶, Michael Inouye^{1

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¹ Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
² British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
³ Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁴ Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
⁷ British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁸ The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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