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Scientific Object Registry

Protean treats scientific work as typed objects with lineage, disclosure state, lifecycle state, and cryptographic integrity.

Current Object Surface

The current public provenance graph emits Candidate, Hypothesis, Experiment, Runtime cycle, Evidence bundle, and Paper objects. Candidate family, Assay request, Assay result, and Lineage branch are reserved object types for the next lifecycle surface. Collections exist today as separate collection manifests rather than contract enum members or graph node types.

Architecture Vocabulary

The broader scientific object vocabulary includes:

  • Candidate
  • Hypothesis
  • Experiment
  • Candidate family
  • Runtime cycle
  • Evidence bundle
  • Assay request
  • Assay result
  • Paper
  • Lineage branch
  • Collection

These objects let the system connect runtime execution, research reasoning, paper generation, wet-lab planning, and provenance without exposing private payloads.

Registry Role

scientific object
-> content hash
-> lineage hash
-> disclosure state
-> lifecycle state
-> public-safe commitment

The registry is an integrity and lineage layer. It is not an NFT system, not a claims engine, and not a mechanism for publishing raw sequences.

Lifecycle

Objects can move through controlled lifecycle states such as draft, review ready, anchored, assay requested, assay returned, published, superseded, or disputed.

Lifecycle state describes review and provenance posture. It does not establish biological activity, safety, efficacy, patentability, or clinical readiness.

Future Network-Aligned Participation Structures

Scientific objects can support future network-alignment research only through public-safe projections: object IDs, commitments, artifact hashes, lifecycle state, disclosure state, collection membership, and redacted lineage.

The registry is scientific infrastructure, not a claims engine or token-rights ledger. Any future participation mechanism would be separate, reviewed, and subject to legal, regulatory, jurisdictional, compliance, scientific, tax, and operational requirements.

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