Archaea Ontology

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flow "ArchaeaOntology" v1.0

ENTITY ArchaeaOntology {
 TYPE: BiologicalOntology
 DOMAIN: Microbiology
 SUBJECT: Archaea
 PURPOSE: FormalSemanticRepresentation
}

PAGE {
 TITLE: "Archaea Ontology"
 PARENT_DOMAIN: "Microbiology"
 CANONICAL_URL: "https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/biological-ontologies/microbiology/archaea-ontology.html"
 AUTHORS: ["Mark Anthony Higgins", "Sky Recursive AI"]
}

ENTITY Archaeon {
 IS_A: CellularMicroorganism
 DOMAIN: Archaea
 CELL_TYPE: Prokaryotic
 DISTINCT_FROM: [Bacterium, EukaryoticCell]
}

ENTITY ArchaealCell {
 HAS: [CellMembrane, Cytoplasm, Ribosome, Genome]
 MAY_HAVE: [CellWall, SLayer, FlagellaLikeMotilityStructure]
}

ENTITY ArchaealMembrane {
 CONTAINS: EtherLinkedMembraneLipids
 MAY_HAVE: [BilayerArchitecture, MonolayerArchitecture]
}

ENTITY ArchaealLipid {
 MAY_INCLUDE: IsoprenoidDerivedEtherLipid
}

RULE MembraneDistinction {
 ArchaealMembrane != typical_bacterial_ester_linked_membrane
}

ENTITY ArchaealCellWall {
 MAY_HAVE: [SLayer, Pseudomurein, OtherProteinOrPolysaccharideStructures]
 DOES_NOT_REQUIRE: Peptidoglycan
}

ENTITY SLayer {
 IS_A: SurfaceLayer
 MAY_PROVIDE: StructuralProtection
}

RULE CellWallConstraint {
 archaeal_cell_wall != bacterial_peptidoglycan_cell_wall
}

ENTITY ArchaealGenome {
 STORES: HeritableGeneticInformation
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Chromosome, Plasmid, MobileGeneticElement]
}

ENTITY ArchaealChromosome {
 IS_PART_OF: ArchaealGenome
}

ENTITY ArchaealGene {
 PART_OF: ArchaealGenome
 MAY_ENCODE: [Protein, FunctionalRNA]
}

ENTITY ArchaealRibosome {
 PERFORMS: Translation
 HAS: ArchaealMolecularFeatures
}

PROCESS ArchaealGrowth {
 INCREASES: CellNumberOrBiomass
}

PROCESS ArchaealCellDivision {
 PRODUCES: DaughterCells
 MAY_USE: TaxonSpecificDivisionMachinery
}

ENTITY GrowthPhase {
 MAY_BE: [LagPhase, ExponentialPhase, StationaryPhase, DeclinePhase]
}

ENTITY SpecificGrowthRate {
 SYMBOL: mu
 DESCRIBES: RelativePopulationGrowthPerTime
}

RULE GrowthContextRule {
 archaeal_growth MUST_PRESERVE [
  species_or_strain,
  medium,
  temperature,
  pH,
  salinity,
  oxygen_state,
  nutrient_state,
  timepoint
 ]
}

ENTITY ArchaealMetabolism {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Chemotrophy, Lithotrophy, Organotrophy, Autotrophy, Heterotrophy, Respiration, Fermentation]
}

ENTITY Methanogen {
 SUBCLASS_OF: Archaeon
 PERFORMS: Methanogenesis
}

PROCESS Methanogenesis {
 PRODUCES: Methane
 IS_RESTRICTED_TO: ArchaealLineages
 MAY_USE: [CarbonDioxideAndHydrogen, Acetate, MethylatedCompounds]
}

ENTITY Methane {
 SYMBOL: CH4
 MAY_BE_PRODUCT_OF: Methanogenesis
}

RULE MethanogenesisConstraint {
 biological_methane_production != proof_of_archaeal_methanogenesis
 WITHOUT organism_and_pathway_evidence
}

ENTITY MethanotrophicArchaeon {
 MAY_PARTICIPATE_IN: AnaerobicMethaneOxidation
}

PROCESS AnaerobicOxidationOfMethane {
 ABBREVIATION: AOM
 CONSUMES: Methane
 MAY_BE_COUPLED_TO: AlternativeElectronAcceptors
}

ENTITY Halophile {
 MAY_BE: Archaeon
 THRIVES_IN: HighSalinityEnvironment
}

ENTITY Thermophile {
 MAY_BE: Archaeon
 THRIVES_AT: ElevatedTemperature
}

ENTITY Hyperthermophile {
 MAY_BE: Archaeon
 THRIVES_AT: VeryHighTemperature
}

ENTITY Acidophile {
 MAY_BE: Archaeon
 THRIVES_AT: LowPH
}

RULE ExtremophileConstraint {
 Archaea != universally_extremophilic
}

ENTITY ArchaealRespiration {
 MAY_USE: [Oxygen, Nitrate, SulfurCompounds, OtherElectronAcceptors]
 DEPENDS_ON: TaxonAndEnvironment
}

PROCESS ArchaealFermentation {
 CONSERVES: Energy
 WITHOUT_EXTERNAL_RESPIRATORY_TERMINAL_ACCEPTOR
}

ENTITY CarbonFixation {
 MAY_OCCUR_IN: AutotrophicArchaea
 MAY_USE: ArchaealCarbonFixationPathway
}

ENTITY ArchaealCarbonFixationPathway {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [ModifiedCalvinCycle, ReductiveTCAPathway, HydroxypropionateHydroxybutyrateCycle, DicarboxylateHydroxybutyrateCycle]
 DEPENDS_ON: Lineage
}

PROCESS ArchaealGeneExpression {
 INCLUDES: [Transcription, Translation]
}

ENTITY ArchaealRNApolymerase {
 CATALYSES: Transcription
 HAS: MultiSubunitArchitecture
}

ENTITY ArchaealTranscriptionFactor {
 REGULATES: GeneExpression
}

ENTITY ArchaealPromoter {
 REGULATES: TranscriptionInitiation
}

PROCESS ArchaealTranscription {
 PRODUCES: RNA
 FROM: DNA_Template
}

PROCESS ArchaealTranslation {
 PRODUCES: Protein
 FROM: MessengerRNA
}

RULE InformationProcessingConstraint {
 archaeal_information_processing shares_features_with_eukaryotes
 BUT Archaea != Eukaryota
}

PROCESS ArchaealDNAReplication {
 COPIES: ArchaealGenome
 MAY_USE: MultipleReplicationOrigins
 DEPENDING_ON: Species
}

ENTITY ArchaealHistone {
 MAY_BIND: DNA
 MAY_ORGANIZE: ChromatinLikeStructure
 IN: SomeArchaea
}

ENTITY ArchaealChromatin {
 ORGANIZES: DNA
 MAY_USE: [HistoneProteins, OtherDNA-bindingProteins]
}

PROCESS Mutation {
 CHANGES: ArchaealGeneticSequence
 MAY_GENERATE: Variation
}

PROCESS Recombination {
 REARRANGES_ORREPAIRS: GeneticMaterial
}

PROCESS HorizontalGeneTransfer {
 TRANSFERS: GeneticMaterial
 BETWEEN: ArchaealOrOtherMicrobialLineages
 MAY_USE: MultipleMechanisms
}

ENTITY ArchaealVirus {
 IS_A: Virus
 INFECTS: Archaeon
 MAY_HAVE: DiverseMorphologyAndGenomeArchitecture
}

PROCESS ArchaealVirusInfection {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Attachment, Entry, GenomeReplication, Assembly, Release]
}

ENTITY ArchaealPlasmid {
 IS_A: ExtrachromosomalGeneticElement
 MAY_CARRY: AccessoryGenes
}

ENTITY CRISPRCasSystem {
 IS_A: AdaptiveProkaryoticDefenseSystem
 MAY_OCCUR_IN: Archaea
 TARGETS: ForeignGeneticElements
}

ENTITY CRISPRArray {
 STORES: SpacerSequences
}

ENTITY CasProtein {
 PARTICIPATES_IN: CRISPRCasFunction
}

RULE CRISPRConstraint {
 CRISPR_spacer_match != proof_of_current_active_immunity
 WITHOUT expression_and_functional_context
}

ENTITY ArchaealPopulation {
 COMPOSED_OF: ArchaealCells
 OCCURS_IN: DefinedEnvironment
}

ENTITY ArchaealCommunity {
 COMPOSED_OF: OneOrMoreArchaealPopulations
 MAY_INTERACT_WITH: OtherMicrobialPopulations
}

PROCESS ArchaealInteraction {
 MAY_BE: [Competition, Mutualism, Commensalism, Syntrophy, Parasitism]
}

PROCESS Syntrophy {
 COUPLES: MetabolicActivities
 BETWEEN: MicrobialPopulations
}

ENTITY ArchaealBiofilm {
 IS_A: Biofilm
 MAY_INCLUDE: ArchaealCells
}

PROCESS ArchaealBiofilmFormation {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Attachment, MatrixProduction, CommunityMaturation, Dispersal]
}

ENTITY ArchaealHabitat {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Marine, Freshwater, Soil, Sediment, HydrothermalSystem, HypersalineEnvironment, HostAssociatedEnvironment]
}

ENTITY EnvironmentalFactor {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Temperature, pH, Salinity, Oxygen, Nutrients, Pressure]
 MAY_MODULATE: ArchaealPhysiology
}

PROCESS ArchaealEcologicalResponse {
 MAY_CHANGE: [Growth, Metabolism, GeneExpression, CommunityComposition]
 IN_RESPONSE_TO: EnvironmentalFactor
}

PROCESS ArchaealBiogeochemicalCycling {
 MAY_CONTRIBUTE_TO: [CarbonCycle, NitrogenCycle, SulfurCycle]
}

ENTITY AmmoniaOxidizingArchaeon {
 SUBCLASS_OF: Archaeon
 MAY_PERFORM: AmmoniaOxidation
}

PROCESS ArchaealAmmoniaOxidation {
 OXIDIZES: Ammonia
 CONTRIBUTES_TO: NitrogenCycling
}

ENTITY HostAssociatedArchaea {
 OCCUR_IN_OR_ON: Host
 MAY_INTERACT_WITH: HostAndMicrobiota
}

RULE HostAssociationConstraint {
 archaeal_presence_in_host != pathogenicity
 WITHOUT host_damage_and_mechanistic_evidence
}

ENTITY ArchaealTaxonomy {
 CLASSIFIES: Archaea
 USING: [Phylogeny, Genomics, Phenotype, Nomenclature]
}

ENTITY ArchaealSpecies {
 IS_A: TaxonomicConcept
 REQUIRES: GenomicPhylogeneticAndNomenclaturalContext
}

ENTITY ArchaealStrain {
 IS_A: WithinTaxonVariant
 HAS: DefinedIsolationOrGeneticContext
}

ENTITY ArchaealPhylogeny {
 REPRESENTS: EvolutionaryRelationships
 AMONG: ArchaealLineages
}

RULE TaxonomyConstraint {
 sequence_similarity != definitive_archaeal_species_or_strain_identity
 WITHOUT resolution_reference_and_threshold_context
}

PROCESS ArchaealCultivation {
 GROWS: Archaea
 UNDER: ControlledConditions
}

ENTITY ArchaealCultureMedium {
 PROVIDES: DefinedGrowthConditions
}

PROCESS ArchaealIsolation {
 SEPARATES: ArchaealPopulationOrClone
 FROM: MixedSample
}

PROCESS ArchaealMicroscopy {
 VISUALIZES: ArchaealCellsOrStructures
}

PROCESS ArchaealSequencing {
 DETERMINES: ArchaealNucleicAcidSequence
 MAY_SUPPORT: [Identification, Genomics, Phylogeny]
}

PROCESS ArchaealMetagenomics {
 ANALYSES: ArchaealGeneticMaterial
 WITHIN: MicrobialCommunity
}

PROCESS ArchaealTranscriptomics {
 MEASURES: ArchaealRNAExpression
}

PROCESS ArchaealProteomics {
 MEASURES: ArchaealProteinCompositionOrAbundance
}

PROCESS ArchaealMetabolomics {
 MEASURES: ArchaealMetabolites
}

PROCESS ArchaeaMeasurement {
 MAY_MEASURE: [CellCount, Biomass, GrowthRate, MethaneProduction, Metabolite, GeneExpression, CommunityAbundance]
 MAY_USE: [Culture, Microscopy, Sequencing, Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics]
}

ENTITY ArchaeaMeasurementContext {
 HAS: [SpeciesOrStrain, SampleType, EnvironmentOrMedium, Temperature, pH, Salinity, OxygenState, Method, Unit, Timepoint]
}

RULE MeasurementContextRule {
 IF archaeal_measurements ARE_COMPARED
 THEN ArchaeaMeasurementContext MUST_BE preserved
}

ENTITY Evidence {
 TYPES: [CultureEvidence, MicroscopyEvidence, BiochemicalEvidence, MolecularEvidence, GenomicEvidence, MetagenomicEvidence, PhylogeneticEvidence, EcologicalEvidence, MetabolicEvidence, ExperimentalEvidence, ComputationalEvidence, LiteratureEvidence]
}

RULE EvidenceConvergence {
 IF IndependentEvidenceSources AGREE
 THEN Confidence := increase(Confidence)
}

RULE EvidenceConflict {
 IF EvidenceSources CONFLICT
 THEN {
  PRESERVE competing_archaeal_models
  RECORD species_or_strain
  RECORD sample_type
  RECORD environment_or_medium
  RECORD temperature_pH_salinity_and_oxygen_state
  RECORD measurement_method
  RECORD timepoint
  RECORD provenance
  REDUCE confidence
 }
}

RELATION Archaeon HAS ArchaealCell
RELATION ArchaealCell HAS ArchaealGenome
RELATION ArchaealGenome CONTAINS ArchaealGene
RELATION Methanogen PERFORMS Methanogenesis
RELATION ArchaealVirus INFECTS Archaeon
RELATION CRISPRCasSystem MAY_DEFEND ArchaealCell
RELATION ArchaealPopulation PART_OF ArchaealCommunity
RELATION ArchaealMetabolism CONTRIBUTES_TO BiogeochemicalCycling
RELATION ArchaealSequencing SUPPORTS ArchaealIdentification

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE {
 "archaea" ~= "domain Archaea organisms" WHEN taxonomic_context
 "archaeon" ~= "single archaeal organism or cell"
 "methanogen" ~= "methane-producing archaeal organism" WHEN biological_context
 "AOM" ~= "anaerobic oxidation of methane"
 "AOA" ~= "ammonia-oxidizing archaea"
 "CRISPR-Cas" ~= "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat associated defence system"
}

CONFIDENCE ArchaeaAssertion {
 INPUTS: [culture_support, microscopy_support, biochemical_support, molecular_support, genomic_support, phylogenetic_support, ecological_support, metabolic_support, experimental_support, source_independence, semantic_consistency]
 SCORE := weighted_sum(INPUTS)
 LEVEL :=
  IF SCORE >= 0.90 THEN "very_high"
  ELSE IF SCORE >= 0.75 THEN "high"
  ELSE IF SCORE >= 0.55 THEN "moderate"
  ELSE IF SCORE >= 0.35 THEN "low"
  ELSE "uncertain"
}

RULE ArchaealGrowthInference {
 IF cell_number_or_biomass increases_over_time
 UNDER defined_conditions
 THEN ArchaealGrowth MAY_BE_SUPPORTED
}

RULE MethanogenesisInference {
 IF methane_production
 AND archaeal_methanogenesis_pathway_activity ARE_SUPPORTED
 THEN Methanogenesis MAY_BE_INFERRED
}

RULE ArchaealIdentityInference {
 IF genomic_phylogenetic_and_phenotypic_evidence converge
 THEN archaeal_taxonomic_identity confidence MAY_INCREASE
}

RULE EcologicalFunctionInference {
 IF archaeal_activity_and_process_rate_are_linked
 THROUGH functional_or_isotope_evidence
 THEN ecological_function MAY_BE_SUPPORTED
}

RULE CausalityConstraint {
 IF archaeal_feature correlates_with host_or_environmental_state
 THEN DO_NOT_INFER causal_relationship
 WITHOUT mechanistic_or_interventional_evidence
}

QUERY ArchaeaLookup(archaeal_identifier) {
 RETURN [taxonomy, species_or_strain, morphology, membrane, cell_wall, genome, metabolism, growth_conditions, habitat, viruses, ecological_function, evidence, confidence]
}

QUERY ArchaealMetabolismLookup(context_identifier) {
 RETURN [energy_strategy, carbon_strategy, electron_donors, electron_acceptors, methanogenesis, methane_oxidation, ammonia_oxidation, metabolites, environmental_conditions, evidence, confidence]
}

QUERY ArchaealCommunityLookup(sample_identifier) {
 RETURN [archaeal_taxa, abundance, diversity, metabolism, environmental_context, microbial_interactions, functional_genes, methods, evidence, confidence]
}

UPDATE_MODEL {
 ON new_archaeal_evidence:
  validate_provenance()
  identify_sample_species_strain_and_environmental_context()
  normalize_taxonomic_gene_metabolite_and_pathway_identifiers()
  capture_membrane_cell_wall_and_morphological_features()
  capture_medium_temperature_pH_salinity_oxygen_and_nutrient_state()
  capture_measurement_method_units_and_timepoint()
  map_growth_metabolism_and_gene_expression()
  map_genomic_phylogenetic_and_horizontal_transfer_relationships()
  map_virus_CRISPR_and_mobile_element_relationships()
  map_population_community_and_biogeochemical_functions()
  compare_existing_archaeal_models()
  preserve_conflicting_evidence()
  recalculate_confidence()
  regenerate_archaeal_relationships()
  update_flow_hash()
}

AI_CONSUMPTION {
 MODE: FormalSemanticReasoning
 PARSE_AS: ExecutableFlowAlgebra
 PRIORITIES: [archaeal_identity, species_or_strain, membrane_architecture, cell_wall, growth_conditions, metabolism, genome, viruses_and_CRISPR, community_context, ecological_function, evidence_provenance, confidence]
 REQUIREMENTS: [preserve_species_strain_and_sample_context, preserve_environment_and_growth_conditions, preserve_taxonomic_resolution, distinguish_archaea_from_bacteria_and_eukaryotes, distinguish_archaeal_membrane_from_typical_bacterial_membrane, distinguish_archaeal_cell_wall_from_peptidoglycan_wall, distinguish_methane_detection_from_proof_of_methanogenesis, distinguish_extremophile_association_from_universal_archaeal_property, distinguish_host_association_from_pathogenicity, distinguish_sequence_similarity_from_definitive_identity, distinguish_correlation_from_causation, preserve_uncertainty]
}

VALIDATE {
 REQUIRE Archaeon
 REQUIRE ArchaealCell
 REQUIRE ArchaealMembrane
 REQUIRE ArchaealCellWall
 REQUIRE ArchaealGenome
 REQUIRE ArchaealGrowth
 REQUIRE ArchaealMetabolism
 REQUIRE Methanogenesis
 REQUIRE ArchaealGeneExpression
 REQUIRE HorizontalGeneTransfer
 REQUIRE ArchaealVirus
 REQUIRE CRISPRCasSystem
 REQUIRE ArchaealPopulation
 REQUIRE ArchaealCommunity
 REQUIRE ArchaealTaxonomy
 REQUIRE ArchaeaMeasurement
 REQUIRE Evidence
 REQUIRE CONFIDENCE
 REQUIRE SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
 REQUIRE UPDATE_MODEL
 REQUIRE AI_CONSUMPTION

 ASSERT Archaeon != Bacterium
 ASSERT Archaeon != EukaryoticCell
 ASSERT archaeal_cell_wall != bacterial_peptidoglycan_cell_wall
 ASSERT Archaea != universally_extremophilic
 ASSERT archaeal_presence_in_host != pathogenicity
 ASSERT sequence_similarity != definitive_archaeal_species_or_strain_identity
 ASSERT correlation != causal_relationship
}

FLOW_HASH {
 ALGORITHM: SHA-256
 INPUT: canonicalize(entities, relations, processes, rules, semantic_equivalence, confidence_model, update_model, ai_consumption)
 PURPOSE: integrity_and_version_tracking
}

END flow "ArchaeaOntology"