Pith Number

pith:U6YGPVFB

pith:2018:U6YGPVFBYTCG2MYUU2IUQQQRLM

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Noise in gene expression may be a choice of cellular system

Rajesh Karmakar

arxiv:1811.07341 v3 · 2018-11-18 · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U6YGPVFBYTCG2MYUU2IUQQQRLM}

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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	2026-05-17T23:45:33.010829Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7b067d4a1c4c46d3314a6914842115b0f6c2bf2323e120041f3e757474d577a

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.07341 · arxiv_version: 1811.07341v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.07341 · pith_short_12: U6YGPVFBYTCG · pith_short_16: U6YGPVFBYTCG2MYU · pith_short_8: U6YGPVFB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U6YGPVFBYTCG2MYUU2IUQQQRLM \
  | 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: a7b067d4a1c4c46d3314a6914842115b0f6c2bf2323e120041f3e757474d577a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3dc37818b8b8f9275cf10c6f1791176d09fcf4756b3017c4d2743217520a6d01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-18T15:44:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca5cbe3be337ebb0dc23287ba88c93f06e053751dd860c814486f047cd5a7182"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.07341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}