Pith Number

pith:LWWU7WF3

pith:2012:LWWU7WF3ATS46O2CCGG3HKW7YX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Who Watches the Watchmen? An Appraisal of Benchmarks for Multiple Sequence Alignment

Christophe Dessimoz, Kevin Gori, Manuel Gil, Nick Goldman, Stefano Iantorno

arxiv:1211.2160 v1 · 2012-11-09 · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LWWU7WF3ATS46O2CCGG3HKW7YX}

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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	2026-05-18T02:29:53.352454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dad4fd8bb04e5cf3b42118db3aadfc5cceaaaea892bcf51968dfd274ff10fa3

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.2160 · arxiv_version: 1211.2160v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.2160 · pith_short_12: LWWU7WF3ATS4 · pith_short_16: LWWU7WF3ATS46O2C · pith_short_8: LWWU7WF3

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/LWWU7WF3ATS46O2CCGG3HKW7YX \
  | 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: 5dad4fd8bb04e5cf3b42118db3aadfc5cceaaaea892bcf51968dfd274ff10fa3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "174fe5bb7bfdbcd510c0a5cdb11a9224c6e648696944046eb85b2c56fde4b31b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-09T15:26:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc670caf2f05fb03978f929f0800a0d66ba1c5485033f4be95825e83ccf14734"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.2160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}