Pith Number

pith:BGQ3DVS3

pith:2012:BGQ3DVS3IZ55BWU2BCBVLP4IBG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The chaos within: exploring noise in cellular biology

Iain G. Johnston

arxiv:1208.2250 v1 · 2012-08-10 · q-bio.CB · q-bio.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BGQ3DVS3IZ55BWU2BCBVLP4IBG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:59.682075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09a1b1d65b467bd0da9a088355bf8809b0320c8c94b5c22a929e57f3ac41df38

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2250 · arxiv_version: 1208.2250v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2250 · pith_short_12: BGQ3DVS3IZ55 · pith_short_16: BGQ3DVS3IZ55BWU2 · pith_short_8: BGQ3DVS3

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/BGQ3DVS3IZ55BWU2BCBVLP4IBG \
  | 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: 09a1b1d65b467bd0da9a088355bf8809b0320c8c94b5c22a929e57f3ac41df38

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bc2cd138ec95289760a5248d8b5209c22bd4d870c46c5f2cace86bf398c346e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-10T19:01:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40b8a3c066d18c5e5ccd6d6f8c744a917821d8375b4edf4c198a100f5556d981"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2250",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}