Pith Number

pith:U2KIOBDA

pith:2012:U2KIOBDAQVAN3EKGEYF4OMI6TX

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Illumina Sequencing Artifacts Revealed by Connectivity Analysis of Metagenomic Datasets

Adina Chuang Howe, C. Titus Brown, James M. Tiedje, Janet Jansson, Jason Pell, Rachel Mackelprang, Rosangela Canino-Koning, Susannah Tringe

arxiv:1212.0159 v1 · 2012-12-01 · q-bio.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U2KIOBDAQVAN3EKGEYF4OMI6TX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:39:27.089405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6948704608540dd9146260bc7311e9dcce908babfdbe9842b94d59cfacc8d16

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0159 · arxiv_version: 1212.0159v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0159 · pith_short_12: U2KIOBDAQVAN · pith_short_16: U2KIOBDAQVAN3EKG · pith_short_8: U2KIOBDA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U2KIOBDAQVAN3EKGEYF4OMI6TX \
  | 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: a6948704608540dd9146260bc7311e9dcce908babfdbe9842b94d59cfacc8d16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a0b5dd377a6770de6e1edc7e1780c19a1adda9877bc5959df8c665d063f1dd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-01T20:57:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f3c7c5f4f18704f1160d3e2aa1066373f886c0e268a318122d985fa97e57aa2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}