Pith Number

pith:TMP2QJL5

pith:2017:TMP2QJL55X5ZSHAVDMONQJSN5X

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The physicist's guide to one of biotechnology's hottest new topics: CRISPR-Cas

Melia E. Bonomo, Michael W. Deem

arxiv:1712.09865 v2 · 2017-12-28 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TMP2QJL55X5ZSHAVDMONQJSN5X}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:16.241750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b1fa8257dedfb991c151b1cd8264dedecfd948dd03d8a81a54e5e79cc8df230

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09865 · arxiv_version: 1712.09865v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09865 · pith_short_12: TMP2QJL55X5Z · pith_short_16: TMP2QJL55X5ZSHAV · pith_short_8: TMP2QJL5

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/TMP2QJL55X5ZSHAVDMONQJSN5X \
  | 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: 9b1fa8257dedfb991c151b1cd8264dedecfd948dd03d8a81a54e5e79cc8df230

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "784ed267079350266d2fb5c5b82d397042838be2b3c28fb6393ec05fd0c37586",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-28T14:03:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a2006e46aa10d5c1748a3ec7f7786bb56ecec58aed23e28b9af1af9844ace01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09865",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}