Pith Number

pith:3L52SFP4

pith:2003:3L52SFP4CAYPU2JPSTZYJWPZXD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Persistence length of chromatin determines origin spacing in Xenopus early-embryo DNA replication: Quantitative comparisons between theory and experiment

Aaron Bensimon, John Bechhoefer, John Herrick, Suckjoon Jun

arxiv:q-bio/0311032 v1 · 2003-11-24 · q-bio.QM · q-bio.BM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3L52SFP4CAYPU2JPSTZYJWPZXD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:32.867419Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dafba915fc1030fa692f94f384d9f9b8d0184d431c744d3b807311933ae33f6d

Aliases

arxiv: q-bio/0311032 · arxiv_version: q-bio/0311032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0311032 · pith_short_12: 3L52SFP4CAYP · pith_short_16: 3L52SFP4CAYPU2JP · pith_short_8: 3L52SFP4

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/3L52SFP4CAYPU2JPSTZYJWPZXD \
  | 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: dafba915fc1030fa692f94f384d9f9b8d0184d431c744d3b807311933ae33f6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59952f99fb9f5fa95d87870f8ce5abd8b4eee07a3296490a740ec2a0dc731116",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.BM"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2003-11-24T06:17:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1348418da3504efb78fddae480357a0e99e5d3f9b95df9b4d7372d9b677b815f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-bio/0311032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}