Pith Number

pith:GLOCE3H2

pith:2026:GLOCE3H2COBIUK3L7FMEDTKC24

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

Alejandro F\'abregas-Tejeda, Bart Smeets, Grant Ramsey, Lendert Gelens, Sylvia Wenmackers

arxiv:2608.06998 v1 · 2026-08-07 · q-bio.MN · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GLOCE3H2COBIUK3L7FMEDTKC24}

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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	2026-08-10T01:12:48.092839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32dc226cfa13828a2b6bf95841cd42d732239f6424ca1e48eb1041cdb67007de

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06998 · arxiv_version: 2608.06998v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06998 · pith_short_12: GLOCE3H2COBI · pith_short_16: GLOCE3H2COBIUK3L · pith_short_8: GLOCE3H2

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/GLOCE3H2COBIUK3L7FMEDTKC24 \
  | 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: 32dc226cfa13828a2b6bf95841cd42d732239f6424ca1e48eb1041cdb67007de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0886ac0db239a3c704d4a0021fdb8c74b7d779391a72d1444535544e4e7a911",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T09:17:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "549a4fdb95dd467b716244cfca76caf95b70e57f01146d973759dbe6b96ec2c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}