Pith Number

pith:SFXVCNIP

pith:2010:SFXVCNIPH6W2SIQL3ASQEPU6EX

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Measurement of the copy number of the master quorum-sensing regulator of a bacterial cell

Bonnie L. Bassler, Kimberly C. Tu, Ned S. Wingreen, N. P. Ong, Pankaj Mehta, Shu-Wen Teng, Tao Long, Yufang Wang

arxiv:1001.0977 v2 · 2010-01-06 · q-bio.QM · q-bio.BM

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\pithnumber{SFXVCNIPH6W2SIQL3ASQEPU6EX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:10:04.297900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

916f51350f3fada9220bd825023e9e25ed70bd60f344b746a63c1f637ae52930

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.0977 · arxiv_version: 1001.0977v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.0977 · pith_short_12: SFXVCNIPH6W2 · pith_short_16: SFXVCNIPH6W2SIQL · pith_short_8: SFXVCNIP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SFXVCNIPH6W2SIQL3ASQEPU6EX \
  | 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: 916f51350f3fada9220bd825023e9e25ed70bd60f344b746a63c1f637ae52930

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db4561190c1e712e4e7b900a5bc8c9eb5892afea8309bd1cbc9f2ae73c03380a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.BM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-06T21:07:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44f904ee2f6f2421c2a34303a2c2fbc3150fade8e9f81ec151e969588c01f1b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.0977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}