Pith Number

pith:C6GCG56H

pith:2013:C6GCG56HXKJGM2JC5PBIWW7ZXA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can inferred provenance and its visualisation be used to detect erroneous annotation? A case study using UniProtKB

Matthew Collison, Michael J. Bell, Phillip Lord

arxiv:1308.4618 v1 · 2013-08-21 · cs.CL · cs.CE · cs.DL · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6GCG56HXKJGM2JC5PBIWW7ZXA}

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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	2026-05-18T03:15:21.508627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

178c2377c7ba92666922ebc28b5bf9b83773f622678a650e759a616872c49742

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.4618 · arxiv_version: 1308.4618v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.4618 · pith_short_12: C6GCG56HXKJG · pith_short_16: C6GCG56HXKJGM2JC · pith_short_8: C6GCG56H

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/C6GCG56HXKJGM2JC5PBIWW7ZXA \
  | 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: 178c2377c7ba92666922ebc28b5bf9b83773f622678a650e759a616872c49742

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1dc0fca212390b17bc9b1d73c641ce9321fdff598f3a9f840f74cb30626cf0db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CE",
      "cs.DL",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-21T15:49:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1742dfff5fdd22d5e03722f9878485f60292cd323633fc6eafd9d726b34fce8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.4618",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}