As SURF captures data in a tabular format, we recommend using universally readable file formats such as TXT, CSV, or TSV files. Since chemical data can contain delimiters such as commas or semicolons, we suggest using only TAB-delimited TXT or TSV files. These file types can be written and read with all popular spreadsheet or text editor software available on multiple operating systems. One point to consider when using SURF is that data is not validated upon capture. We acknowledge that this does not prevent users from entering false or incomplete reaction data. However, we recommend performing validation only upon reading SURF files into a database, transforming them to other formats, or using the data for machine learning purposes. SURF files are interoperable, as they can be introduced into hierarchical databases and converted into other existing reaction formats, such as the ORD Pro-tocol Buffers format or UDM XML format. As part of this manuscript, we open-source the respective Python code enabling the transformation between different data formats ().