Reducing the carbon footprint of scientific computing

As science increasingly relies on big data and AI tools, the carbon footprint of computational work is on the rise

Credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBI

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GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable computational science

Lannelongue, L., et al.

Nature Computational Science 26 June 2023

10.1038/s43588-023-00461-y

Tags: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, cloud computing, computational biology, computing, deep learning, embl-ebi, sustainability,

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