Pith Number

pith:N7BSAKHB

pith:2020:N7BSAKHBQXZZ5M3JZ2DX4BJQRG

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Trading bits in the readout from a genetic network

Eric F. Wieschaus, Marianne Bauer, Mariela D. Petkova, Thomas Gregor, William Bialek

arxiv:2012.15817 v1 · 2020-12-31 · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N7BSAKHBQXZZ5M3JZ2DX4BJQRG}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:12:54.382535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6fc32028e185f39eb369ce877e053089a858b0e0202f74723668be040cf1cd80

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.15817 · arxiv_version: 2012.15817v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.15817 · pith_short_12: N7BSAKHBQXZZ · pith_short_16: N7BSAKHBQXZZ5M3J · pith_short_8: N7BSAKHB

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/N7BSAKHBQXZZ5M3JZ2DX4BJQRG \
  | 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: 6fc32028e185f39eb369ce877e053089a858b0e0202f74723668be040cf1cd80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c74fcc13704742a5b3e036055a3a6fa9e0ca3012a1fef94dacdf193485b063d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-31T18:39:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c3260822d346e6a6b1f16bb177626526ded69dd837b834950b3c428dd084984"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.15817",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}