Pith Number

pith:USKJ3EWE

pith:2015:USKJ3EWENG7BMDLOKUKHYQY373

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On the Origins and Control of Community Types in the Human Microbiome

Amir Bashan, Hong-Tai Cao, Scott T. Weiss, Travis E. Gibson, Yang-Yu Liu

arxiv:1506.05171 v3 · 2015-06-17 · q-bio.QM · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USKJ3EWENG7BMDLOKUKHYQY373}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:18.639351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4949d92c469be160d6e55147c431bfec565ef0388fa9984e517b1514dacdfaa

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.05171 · arxiv_version: 1506.05171v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.05171 · pith_short_12: USKJ3EWENG7B · pith_short_16: USKJ3EWENG7BMDLO · pith_short_8: USKJ3EWE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USKJ3EWENG7BMDLOKUKHYQY373 \
  | 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: a4949d92c469be160d6e55147c431bfec565ef0388fa9984e517b1514dacdfaa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96b3ebe85d0bf6647ead6e5d8b44e17aca6a7f1f00848b68c036e8d6e3332ce1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-17T00:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e3505b48ef7e8f104c2db25349fec1f12ee76a1a764f9b4d4a0997dfedec300"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.05171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}