Pith Number

pith:OLCXITMG

pith:2004:OLCXITMG2N7PBBY433A7IL4VTB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Path to Epigenetic Switching

Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Anirvan M. Sengupta, David Marin Roma, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Ruadhan A. O'Flanagan

arxiv:q-bio/0406008 v3 · 2004-06-03 · q-bio.MN · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OLCXITMG2N7PBBY433A7IL4VTB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:24:20.717372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72c5744d86d37ef0871cdec1f42f95986d70ff331247d3d381345907c0585f88

Aliases

arxiv: q-bio/0406008 · arxiv_version: q-bio/0406008v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0406008 · pith_short_12: OLCXITMG2N7P · pith_short_16: OLCXITMG2N7PBBY4 · pith_short_8: OLCXITMG

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/OLCXITMG2N7PBBY433A7IL4VTB \
  | 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: 72c5744d86d37ef0871cdec1f42f95986d70ff331247d3d381345907c0585f88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aebbdb4afb2e55beb1cc5619981ec486831c7df2d3b55cfe051fb8739d1ff1a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2004-06-03T01:41:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "659c3870b3210b05d9f0a7d2390038b126f15360527e4d7f4e08ae1ac6eee162"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-bio/0406008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}