Pith Number

pith:NEXRK4I4

pith:2018:NEXRK4I4B6XVZTUNVPN3SJM4GW

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Proofs of life: molecular-biology reasoning simulates cell behaviors from first principles

Emmanuel Pietriga, Ren\'e Vestergaard

arxiv:1811.02478 v3 · 2018-10-30 · q-bio.OT · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NEXRK4I4B6XVZTUNVPN3SJM4GW}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:51:05.332670Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

692f15711c0faf5cce8dabdbb9259c359b51d922a21f68853d73a3e2d796eeca

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.02478 · arxiv_version: 1811.02478v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.02478 · pith_short_12: NEXRK4I4B6XV · pith_short_16: NEXRK4I4B6XVZTUN · pith_short_8: NEXRK4I4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NEXRK4I4B6XVZTUNVPN3SJM4GW \
  | 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: 692f15711c0faf5cce8dabdbb9259c359b51d922a21f68853d73a3e2d796eeca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9fe65f084743d13bb7668c7b4bd3a12cdd1806ccda3ce56b234becbcdb92bcbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T11:29:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2da6120ed2c893f27b4686c68982e1d5e2931f76bb573dad511fe0b48ff0903e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.02478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}