torchcell.paper.tables.instance_bytes

instance_bytes(record: dict[str, Any]) → bytes

Serialize the full stored INSTANCE (perturbation + environment + phenotype).

This counts the stored PERTURBATION – the edit that defines the genotype, whether a single gene deletion or thousands of natural gene-presence entries that amount to an entirely new genome (referenced by sequence_ref, an ArtifactRef) – alongside the environment and the measured phenotype. It never includes the shared reference genome (that lives external, as a pointer, and is not stored per-instance); only each instance’s delta from it. Constant record metadata (experiment_type, dataset_name) compresses away.