Pith Number

pith:QYRSCTAL

pith:2012:QYRSCTALKVJSGT5DS7E6W6NCHV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large number of receptors may reduce cellular response time variation

Ilya Nemenman, Lina Merchan, Martin Tchernookov, Xiang Cheng

arxiv:1212.1229 v2 · 2012-12-06 · q-bio.MN · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYRSCTALKVJSGT5DS7E6W6NCHV}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T03:00:26.717344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8623214c0b5553234fa397c9eb79a23d72285caf99f0a84a59fd05380cc71a1c

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1229 · arxiv_version: 1212.1229v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1229 · pith_short_12: QYRSCTALKVJS · pith_short_16: QYRSCTALKVJSGT5D · pith_short_8: QYRSCTAL

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QYRSCTALKVJSGT5DS7E6W6NCHV \
  | 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: 8623214c0b5553234fa397c9eb79a23d72285caf99f0a84a59fd05380cc71a1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "211688739e9a944fcb585cd2ff01da2d20aebc6aae0b9f75958bcbd221dc38b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-06T03:26:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b41b734dd5f33e3ed59b746ad29ef16edc047d78974c4f790a60255529a59516"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}