Pith Number

pith:Q2GDXCL5

pith:2017:Q2GDXCL5U7WYDGYVISZIW73VGB

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A physics-explicit model of bacterial conjugation shows the stabilizing role of the conjugative junction

Bartlomiej Waclaw, Jakub Pastuszak

arxiv:1712.01956 v1 · 2017-12-05 · q-bio.PE · cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\pithnumber{Q2GDXCL5U7WYDGYVISZIW73VGB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:39.628978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

868c3b897da7ed819b1544b28b7f75306ba4685bbc212b20a6785583b7efba40

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01956 · arxiv_version: 1712.01956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01956 · pith_short_12: Q2GDXCL5U7WY · pith_short_16: Q2GDXCL5U7WYDGYV · pith_short_8: Q2GDXCL5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q2GDXCL5U7WYDGYVISZIW73VGB \
  | 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: 868c3b897da7ed819b1544b28b7f75306ba4685bbc212b20a6785583b7efba40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4391ea498aa7c368a6fcb5ddb972f44de8b5cd20ad51d88d0c831c8afe12c584",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T22:33:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "070b2707f6e9de84a6b43b10c86e2050e4d04887020df378b884f3a265785e59"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}