Pith Number

pith:45XFWZTT

pith:2018:45XFWZTTHQJOPZOK5WFJCWIKW5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Comparison of Microbial Genome Web Portals

Mario Latendresse, Markus Krummenacker, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides, Peter D. Karp, Peter Midford, Rekha Seshadri, Suzanne Paley, Wai Kit Ong

arxiv:1810.12860 v1 · 2018-10-30 · q-bio.GN

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45XFWZTTHQJOPZOK5WFJCWIKW5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:53.966341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e76e5b66733c12e7e5caed8a91590ab7602ea436d5eed9ec0be2bf32289ef439

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12860 · arxiv_version: 1810.12860v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12860 · pith_short_12: 45XFWZTTHQJO · pith_short_16: 45XFWZTTHQJOPZOK · pith_short_8: 45XFWZTT

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/45XFWZTTHQJOPZOK5WFJCWIKW5 \
  | 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: e76e5b66733c12e7e5caed8a91590ab7602ea436d5eed9ec0be2bf32289ef439

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "162155071bf2fcd03534e33fcf14a34849ea128d16f71d0b59a9cba92d7536a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T17:01:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53fba90e6373548930a84d03ae9914e23029360d3965cc7af2084abfef9a2fbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}