Circuit Genomes: preserving the design of a complete capability
A Circuit Genome is a versioned recipe for building and rebuilding a Circuit. A recipe is more than the finished meal: it explains the ingredients, their quantities, the steps, and what must change when one ingredient is different. Likewise, a Circuit Genome captures the identities and versions of its component DataChips, their connections, the accepted input and output definitions, dependencies, relevant tests, rights and reconstruction instructions.
Why call it a genome? In biology, a genome provides an organized set of instructions involved in forming and maintaining a living organism. BTG uses the analogy for a working digital architecture that can be recreated and revised. It is not a living organism, nor does the name mean the software spontaneously becomes intelligent. It describes a structured design whose versions can be inspected and whose changes can be measured.
Suppose a manufacturer uses a Circuit to identify developing bearing faults. A new measurement method becomes available. An updated Genome may replace one DataChip, add a verification step, or change how multiple sensors are combined. The previous qualified version remains recoverable. The new arrangement must be tested as a new version rather than inheriting every claim about the previous one automatically.
This opens two different forms of commercial value. One company might licence a particular DataChip - a single useful calculation. Another might licence an entire Circuit Genome - a tested configuration that combines several capabilities to solve a more significant problem. NIKI and FarmNodes can investigate new combinations, but any new design must earn its own reproducibility and rights evidence.
The related Farm Genome
A Farm Genome works at a higher level. Instead of describing one functional process, it describes how to assemble a complete virtual research laboratory: the kinds of research it performs, instruments and tools available, datasets it may access, its experiment procedures, permitted capabilities, evaluation methods and operating constraints. That makes a FarmNode reproducible as a research environment, not merely a single program.
These two genomes should never be confused. A Circuit Genome builds a particular executable solution. A Farm Genome builds a laboratory capable of producing and evaluating many solutions.