Pith Number

pith:MLSLBANP

pith:2017:MLSLBANPFBM2EEESJRMTGALTRH

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Measuring and modeling polymer gradients argues that spindle microtubules regulate their own nucleation

Bryan Kaye, Daniel J. Needleman, Michael J. Shelley, Olivia Stiehl, Peter J. Foster, Sebastian F\"urthauer

arxiv:1710.08405 v1 · 2017-10-23 · q-bio.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MLSLBANPFBM2EEESJRMTGALTRH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:31.671607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62e4b081af2859a210924c5933017389c2142b7a2798933b10bc2cb66042d0b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08405 · arxiv_version: 1710.08405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08405 · pith_short_12: MLSLBANPFBM2 · pith_short_16: MLSLBANPFBM2EEES · pith_short_8: MLSLBANP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MLSLBANPFBM2EEESJRMTGALTRH \
  | 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: 62e4b081af2859a210924c5933017389c2142b7a2798933b10bc2cb66042d0b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d419ace89272a64dd05cb811ce116db2ce765467bf42f147c5d96f812f4ef9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-23T17:54:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "731dac100c7cc47863a937f01c18eb82f2bd717dd0347b26c7805171d0048c72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}