Pith Number

pith:2MPUAQUC

pith:2015:2MPUAQUC3HQIXZEDKQQKYDSWIV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Universality of Cancer

Carson C. Chow, Vipul Periwal, Yanjun Li

arxiv:1506.00597 v1 · 2015-06-01 · q-bio.TO · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2MPUAQUC3HQIXZEDKQQKYDSWIV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:59:54.167715Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d31f404282d9e08be4835420ac0e564558d53336ecf1a336d4df313147b8a1e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.00597 · arxiv_version: 1506.00597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.00597 · pith_short_12: 2MPUAQUC3HQI · pith_short_16: 2MPUAQUC3HQIXZED · pith_short_8: 2MPUAQUC

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2MPUAQUC3HQIXZEDKQQKYDSWIV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d31f404282d9e08be4835420ac0e564558d53336ecf1a336d4df313147b8a1e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b71798d327ebdc22b5ba99bba22c7be0231f5d234d0fa20216be29dcd7ed149b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.TO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-01T18:28:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4c6c50bc9b0963ccfc151dc86eb5ba568368604a6ea203f9a24d4c781a0cc18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.00597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}