Pith Number

pith:MXH44M7Y

pith:2017:MXH44M7Y6VEQQOVQ2X5ATBQFVR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

No cell left behind: automated physics-based tracking of {\em every} cell in a dense and growing colony

Emile Ramez Shehada, Huy Pham, Shawna Stahlheber, Wayne B. Hayes

arxiv:1709.09155 v1 · 2017-09-26 · q-bio.CB

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXH44M7Y6VEQQOVQ2X5ATBQFVR}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:34:21.029262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65cfce33f8f549083ab0d5fa098605ac469b8613baec1b188045d55f48ec2ea4

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09155 · arxiv_version: 1709.09155v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09155 · pith_short_12: MXH44M7Y6VEQ · pith_short_16: MXH44M7Y6VEQQOVQ · pith_short_8: MXH44M7Y

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/MXH44M7Y6VEQQOVQ2X5ATBQFVR \
  | 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: 65cfce33f8f549083ab0d5fa098605ac469b8613baec1b188045d55f48ec2ea4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a27309adedede130b05ff30dbeb7a8f2b484f5dd6f7a32181f727a720c205051",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-26T17:43:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c619585bc00b659b6d8381a1e3979da2e8bc05bc3099479c8f838fa0b629786d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}