Pith Number

pith:MP3ZMIT5

pith:2023:MP3ZMIT5SKHWNSZXPC4RSCSCGH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Design Patterns of Biological Cells

Herbert M. Sauro, H. Steven Wiley, Steven S. Andrews

arxiv:2310.07880 v1 · 2023-10-11 · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MP3ZMIT5SKHWNSZXPC4RSCSCGH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T06:59:57.798668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63f796227d928f66cb3778b9190a4231da2900e2ae46837a65e2fdda0e70c1cc

Aliases

arxiv: 2310.07880 · arxiv_version: 2310.07880v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.07880 · pith_short_12: MP3ZMIT5SKHW · pith_short_16: MP3ZMIT5SKHWNSZX · pith_short_8: MP3ZMIT5

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/MP3ZMIT5SKHWNSZXPC4RSCSCGH \
  | 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: 63f796227d928f66cb3778b9190a4231da2900e2ae46837a65e2fdda0e70c1cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "377c535a4245558a45705a4c70d4720e9691264eac37d6d0c446a970076c624e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2023-10-11T20:43:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48d2dfcd21600e9c9b7f6456e16cde8a38b26b548b82efb9a5e664f2d3b9f8da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2310.07880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}