Therefore, the FAIR principles were introduced to encourage the comprehensive documentation of structured metadata in all stages of their life cycle in order to guarantee reproducibility of experiments and to enable reuse of results. A discipline-specific standard data exchange format such as EnzymeML therefore provides three functionalities to optimise research in biocatalysis and enzymology: it allows the experimentalist to collect data and metadata in a structured format for data analysis; it allows project partners to transfer data and metadata between different sites and different applications; and it enables findable and reusable publication and archiving of data and metadata .