Pith Number

pith:VEE37V75

pith:2012:VEE37V75E477ZS3BQCM5355Z7N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Introduction to RNA Databases

Lars E. Barquist, Marc P. Hoeppner, Paul P. Gardner

arxiv:1206.4084 v1 · 2012-06-18 · q-bio.BM · q-bio.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEE37V75E477ZS3BQCM5355Z7N}

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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	2026-05-18T02:48:53.321706Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a909bfd7fd273ffccb618099ddf7b9fb4fe5479e9ef74e6c395c28b07e239555

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4084 · arxiv_version: 1206.4084v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4084 · pith_short_12: VEE37V75E477 · pith_short_16: VEE37V75E477ZS3B · pith_short_8: VEE37V75

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/VEE37V75E477ZS3BQCM5355Z7N \
  | 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: a909bfd7fd273ffccb618099ddf7b9fb4fe5479e9ef74e6c395c28b07e239555

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42ee190566a8523822ca1855918b32346a2a8e08b602f1f890e5029bf9c685e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.BM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-18T21:48:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35e88ad8c7ab39787f7aaeb48dda24a457d21cb79981d7bdcce0590812413d16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4084",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}