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==Legal aspects==
To ensure that data cannot be easily altered, notebooks with permanently bound pages are often recommended.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schnell|first=Santiago|date=2015-09-10|title=Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist's Laboratory Notebook|journal=PLOS Computational Biology|volume=11|issue=9|pages=e1004385|doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004385|pmid=26356732|pmc=4565690|bibcode=2015PLSCB..11E4385S|issn=1553-7358 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Researchers are often encouraged to write only with unerasable pen, to sign and date each page, and to have their notebooks inspected periodically by another scientist who can read and understand it.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomson |first=JA |author-link= |date=2007 |title=How to Start—and Keep—a Laboratory Notebook: Policy and Practical Guidelines. In: Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices (eds. Krattiger A, Mahoney RT, Nelsen L, et al.) |url= |___location=Oxford, UK |publisher=MIHR |pages=763–771 |isbn=}}</ref> All of these guidelines can be useful in proving exactly when a discovery was made, in the case of a patent dispute. However
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