Software; software for scientific purposes; software for laboratory equipment; software for the integrated and coordinated management of laboratory information systems and/or laboratory equipment and instruments; software for the control and interconnection of the operation of laboratory information systems and/or laboratory equipment and instruments; software for communication and interconnection between information systems and laboratory equipment and instruments; software for the collection, processing and transmission of images and/or clinical, diagnostic and/or laboratory data; interface software for the management of laboratory equipment; software for the processing and transmission of reports relating to laboratory analysis; software for laboratory analysis; software for image analysis; software for the processing and analysis of images and data relating to microbiological samples; software for the automatic interpretation of images and data and for the automatic or assisted identification of micro-organisms.