Pith Number

pith:5KFOLMPQ

pith:2017:5KFOLMPQAK7OTAZSUESW2LYCMB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Abortive Initiation as a Bottleneck for Transcription in the Early Drosophila Embryo

Alexander J. Levine, Alexander S. Serov, Madhav Mani

arxiv:1701.06079 v1 · 2017-01-21 · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KFOLMPQAK7OTAZSUESW2LYCMB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:19.391844Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea8ae5b1f002bee98332a1256d2f02607523e4880764099b2f3a84bebd6b5f60

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06079 · arxiv_version: 1701.06079v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06079 · pith_short_12: 5KFOLMPQAK7O · pith_short_16: 5KFOLMPQAK7OTAZS · pith_short_8: 5KFOLMPQ

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/5KFOLMPQAK7OTAZSUESW2LYCMB \
  | 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: ea8ae5b1f002bee98332a1256d2f02607523e4880764099b2f3a84bebd6b5f60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f57eb730db04ee848b547cf6d1caff70f0c158e789ae3597db49e8a5dc92b02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-21T20:20:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0a3dbda6e893217f90d3cf84f3c46cfba7d2cbbb661bf8460423c5d6c64c5d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}