Pith Number

pith:BSUNHPQC

pith:2012:BSUNHPQCLOPQIYZ6BKB3VKCXGU

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A Reference-Free Algorithm for Computational Normalization of Shotgun Sequencing Data

Adina Howe, Alexis B. Pyrkosz, C. Titus Brown, Qingpeng Zhang, Timothy H. Brom

arxiv:1203.4802 v2 · 2012-03-21 · q-bio.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSUNHPQCLOPQIYZ6BKB3VKCXGU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:13.788552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ca8d3be025b9f04633e0a83baa8573517ebb4c8f714edc9be6fb773edb38700

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4802 · arxiv_version: 1203.4802v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4802 · pith_short_12: BSUNHPQCLOPQ · pith_short_16: BSUNHPQCLOPQIYZ6 · pith_short_8: BSUNHPQC

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/BSUNHPQCLOPQIYZ6BKB3VKCXGU \
  | 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: 0ca8d3be025b9f04633e0a83baa8573517ebb4c8f714edc9be6fb773edb38700

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58c20d7a3f65f0e14a39751545e82ceb98b838de5f9b6ff349f609b0be458f29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-21T18:58:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c13f25aa0f37a8e14782ffd33425ddaade77f6296122f75330b6c78fcd0b7a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}