%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Guignon, V.
%A Breton, C.
%A Mariette, J.
%A Sabot, François
%A Fumey, J.
%A Lefort, V.
%A Fiston-Lavier, A. S.
%T Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference : an opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions
%D 2021
%L fdi:010083328
%G ENG
%J PLoS Computational Biology
%@ 1553-734X
%M ISI:000710715100006
%N 10
%P e1009321 [13 ]
%R 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009321
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083328
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2021-12/010083328.pdf
%V 17
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X In 2020, the world faced the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic that drastically altered people's lives. Since then, many countries have been forced to suspend public gatherings, leading to many conference cancellations, postponements, or reorganizations. Switching from a face-to-face to a remote conference became inevitable and the ultimate solution to sustain scientific exchanges at the national and the international levels. The same year, as a committee, we were in charge of organizing the major French annual conference that covers all computational biology areas: The "Journees Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathematiques " (JOBIM). Despite the health crisis, we succeeded in changing the conference format from face to face to remote in a very short amount of time. Here, we propose 10 simple rules based on this experience to modify a conference format in an optimized and cost-effective way. In addition to the suggested rules, we decided to emphasize an unexpected benefit of this situation: a significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to travel for scientific conference attendance. We believe that even once the SARS-CoV-2 crisis is over, we collectively will have an opportunity to think about the way we approach such scientific events over the longer term.</p>
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