Pith Number

pith:7UA3ISTF

pith:2015:7UA3ISTFUGL4FKDTCKLCX37FQL

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Bacterial chemotaxis: information processing, thermodynamics, and behavior

Gabriele Micali, Robert G. Endres

arxiv:1512.02542 v1 · 2015-12-08 · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7UA3ISTFUGL4FKDTCKLCX37FQL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:44.449815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd01b44a65a197c2a87312962befe582f5506e67150c7a285d7fcfb0f8131015

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.02542 · arxiv_version: 1512.02542v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.02542 · pith_short_12: 7UA3ISTFUGL4 · pith_short_16: 7UA3ISTFUGL4FKDT · pith_short_8: 7UA3ISTF

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/7UA3ISTFUGL4FKDTCKLCX37FQL \
  | 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: fd01b44a65a197c2a87312962befe582f5506e67150c7a285d7fcfb0f8131015

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ee492eced81845813d91aa7431072eeee81730b262416d9eb359438d4b6f384",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-08T16:59:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08e93c8e9be61d391b54f1ae76a85e55753c191b1036512523e41639c3f3ef20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.02542",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}