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The pandemic has fuelled a wave of digitalisation within research and development, with many laboratories adapting to the new way of working by implementing digital software and technology that facilitate remote work. Despite unfavourable circumstances that have forced this change, laboratories will benefit from digitalisation in the long run, but COVID-19 has just sped up the inevitable. The emphasis placed on the digitalisation of processes will not diminish after the pandemic, it is likely to increase significantly. It is expected that a large number of laboratories will have switched or will be preparing to switch to a form of digital documentation.