name: TetraScience Domain Vocabulary provider: TetraScience providerId: tetrascience description: >- Normative vocabulary for the Tetra Scientific Data and AI Cloud. Captures the platform's core concepts (Tetra Data lifecycle stages, agents, IDS, pipelines, AI layer), operational dimensions (tenants, organizations, access groups), and scientific domain terms (chromatography, GxP, FAIR). created: '2026-05-21' modified: '2026-05-21' platform: - term: Tetra Data Platform abbreviation: TDP description: The core multi-tenant SaaS that ingests, replatforms, engineers, and serves scientific data. - term: Tetra Scientific Data and AI Cloud description: The full TetraScience offering encompassing TDP + AI layer + apps. - term: Tenant description: A customer-scoped TDP installation containing one or more organizations. - term: Organization description: A logical grouping within a tenant; the primary unit of access control. - term: Access Group description: A configurable rule-set governing which files, attributes, and datasets a user can access. - term: Role description: A named permission set assignable to users within an organization. data: - term: Raw Data description: Files in vendor-proprietary instrument format as captured at the source. - term: Replatformed Data description: Raw files contextualized and centralized in the Tetra Data Lake. - term: Engineered Data description: Replatformed files transformed into the Intermediate Data Schema for downstream consumption. - term: Tetra Data description: Engineered scientific data conforming to a published IDS — FAIR, AI-ready. - term: Tetra X Data description: Cross-organization Tetra Data shareable with sponsors, CROs, and CDMOs without exposing raw formats. - term: Intermediate Data Schema abbreviation: IDS description: Versioned, instrument-and-vendor-neutral JSON schema describing a scientific data type (e.g. chromatography, plate reader, mass spec). ingestion: - term: Tetra Agent description: Software that liberates raw data from an instrument or application and uploads it to TDP. - term: Tetra Integration description: Cloud-side integration that connects TDP to informatics, analytics, or partner systems. - term: Tetra IoT Layer description: On-premises connectivity surface for instruments behind enterprise firewalls. - term: Empower Agent description: Tetra Agent for Waters Empower CDS. - term: Chromeleon Agent description: Tetra Agent for Thermo Chromeleon CDS. - term: File-Log Agent description: General-purpose file-watcher agent for arbitrary file sources. - term: Connector description: An agent-side adapter for a specific instrument or data source. processing: - term: Tetra Data Pipeline description: A serverless data engineering job that parses, transforms, enriches, and routes Tetra Data. - term: Pipeline Run description: A single execution of a pipeline against an input file or batch. - term: Master Script description: The orchestrating script within a pipeline that calls protocols. - term: Protocol description: A pipeline definition referencing IDS and master script versions. ai: - term: Tetra AI Layer description: The AI orchestration surface that grounds LLM agents in Tetra Data. - term: Tetra Sciborg description: A scientific AI agent (chat, copilot, automation) operating over Tetra Data. - term: GenAI Search description: Natural language search across Tetra Data backed by retrieval-augmented generation. storage_and_search: - term: Tetra Data Lake description: Cloud object storage layer for raw, processed, and engineered files. - term: Attribute description: A typed property attached to a file or dataset (key + value). - term: Tag description: A free-form label for organizing files and datasets. - term: Label description: A controlled-vocabulary classifier for files and datasets. - term: Slug description: A URL-safe identifier for entities such as artifacts, IDS, or pipelines. - term: Namespace description: A logical grouping of artifacts, typically aligned to an organization or program. compliance: - term: GxP description: Umbrella of regulated environments (GLP, GCP, GMP, GVP) requiring validated software. - term: 21 CFR Part 11 description: US FDA regulation on electronic records and signatures. - term: EU Annex 11 description: European regulation on computerised systems in GxP environments. - term: Audit Trail description: Immutable record of who did what, when, in the platform. - term: Validation description: Documented evidence that the platform meets intended use and regulatory requirements. scientific_domains: - term: Chromatography description: Separation technique central to QC, analytical, and process labs (LC, GC, HPLC, UHPLC, IC). - term: Mass Spectrometry description: Detection technique often coupled to chromatography for structural analysis. - term: Spectroscopy description: UV, IR, NMR, fluorescence, etc. for structural and quantitative analysis. - term: BioProcessing description: Upstream and downstream processes for producing biologics. - term: Discovery description: Early-stage research focused on identifying drug candidates. - term: CMC description: Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls — late-stage development. - term: QC description: Quality Control testing of materials and products. architecture: - term: FAIR description: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable — the data principles TetraScience operationalizes. - term: AI-Native description: Data engineered for direct, low-friction consumption by ML and LLM workloads. - term: AWS PrivateLink description: Connectivity mode used for tenant-private API access. - term: VPC Endpoint description: Customer VPC endpoint for private connectivity to the Tetra cloud. api_resources: - term: File description: A unit of scientific data stored in the data lake. - term: Dataset description: A collection of files plus associated metadata. - term: Search description: Query API across files, attributes, and Tetra Data. - term: Artifact description: A versioned platform asset such as an IDS, protocol, master script, or pipeline configuration. - term: Command Queue description: Per-agent queue for remote configuration and control commands.