HIOP Scientific Evidence Platform

Decision and observation records for scientific workflows.

This platform preserves what a workflow requested, whether it was permitted, and what was observed. It does not certify that a scientific result is true.

The problem

Automated scientific pipelines can write, delete, or publish data. Notebooks and lab wikis rarely record whether a given write or instrument command was authorized at that moment.

Intended customer

Labs, research computing, and scientific-software teams that need a reviewable permit/deny and observation record around consequential pipeline steps.

Hood's role

Hood applies HIOP—especially CRUSHIA for authority and Fossil for evidence—to scientific workflow actions. Hood is not the instrument, LIMS, or publisher of the paper.

Governing mechanism

Pipeline steps that can change stored results, instrument state, or released artifacts are evaluated as effects. Authentication to the cluster is not authority to publish or overwrite.

Evidence produced

Records of requested steps, CRUSHIA decisions, and observed outcomes. These are operational receipts, not a claim that the science is correct or reproducible by itself.

Current availability

Described for evaluation. Laboratory integrations depend on written scope. Not sold here as an accredited measurement service.

Simulated versus live

Not a laboratory accreditation, not ISO/IEC 17025, and not a claim that results are true in the world. Simulated/not-live until a written evaluation environment is agreed.

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