Pith Number

pith:GZ6VVFD3

pith:2014:GZ6VVFD3BZ4RLQQ3WSIVO4LMRE

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The role of mechanical forces in the planar-to-bulk transition in growing Escherichia coli microcolonies

Bart{\l}omiej Wac{\l}aw, Matthew A. A. Grant, Pietro Cicuta, Rosalind J. Allen

arxiv:1402.3550 v1 · 2014-02-14 · q-bio.CB · cond-mat.soft

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\pithnumber{GZ6VVFD3BZ4RLQQ3WSIVO4LMRE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:58:58.464414Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

367d5a947b0e7915c21bb49157716c89349343b1012d0550f4fbe38bcd43659b

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.3550 · arxiv_version: 1402.3550v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.3550 · pith_short_12: GZ6VVFD3BZ4R · pith_short_16: GZ6VVFD3BZ4RLQQ3 · pith_short_8: GZ6VVFD3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GZ6VVFD3BZ4RLQQ3WSIVO4LMRE \
  | 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: 367d5a947b0e7915c21bb49157716c89349343b1012d0550f4fbe38bcd43659b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0fdfdb960af2e04fd6917c1b8ec4fcb9efb41a111ffd5015c1a95820d87ccf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-14T18:59:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b30119baf07535e2849917ef97f43467dd748c33c0fd4e18016e44a7fd83a581"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.3550",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}