Pith Number

pith:KVGACEDX

pith:2005:KVGACEDXST7B4JAD35N5T2RO6X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Contact-inhibited chemotaxis in de novo and sprouting blood-vessel growth

Abbas Shirinifard, Erica D. Perryn, James A. Glazier, Roeland M. H. Merks

arxiv:q-bio/0505033 v3 · 2005-05-17 · q-bio.TO · q-bio.CB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVGACEDXST7B4JAD35N5T2RO6X}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T15:14:33.328154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

554c01107794fe1e2403df5bd9ea2ef5f4ef8d434709de9c2374c5fb321943a7

Aliases

arxiv: q-bio/0505033 · arxiv_version: q-bio/0505033v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0505033 · pith_short_12: KVGACEDXST7B · pith_short_16: KVGACEDXST7B4JAD · pith_short_8: KVGACEDX

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/KVGACEDXST7B4JAD35N5T2RO6X \
  | 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: 554c01107794fe1e2403df5bd9ea2ef5f4ef8d434709de9c2374c5fb321943a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f609920c681ed57ed51be52faff4f74871a44740baa7b37a529f007d96513218",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.TO",
    "submitted_at": "2005-05-17T21:50:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "333149ad2540dcb746e90eed6513e53eeb1fcb81fa079f6fbbe4ea8b8ae6a2b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-bio/0505033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}