Pith Number

pith:X4LHXYBI

pith:2017:X4LHXYBIGUKVW646JGWYIB6MBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The power of the AC-DC circuit: Operating principles of a simple multi-functional transcriptional network motif

Chris P. Barnes, James Briscoe, Karen M. Page, Mark Isalan, Ruben Perez-Carrasco, Yolanda Schaerli

arxiv:1708.04593 v2 · 2017-08-15 · q-bio.MN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4LHXYBIGUKVW646JGWYIB6MBZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:58.391080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf167be02835155b7b9e49ad8407cc0e6d604343a0cdc7c637026ce16528ef53

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04593 · arxiv_version: 1708.04593v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04593 · pith_short_12: X4LHXYBIGUKV · pith_short_16: X4LHXYBIGUKVW646 · pith_short_8: X4LHXYBI

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/X4LHXYBIGUKVW646JGWYIB6MBZ \
  | 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: bf167be02835155b7b9e49ad8407cc0e6d604343a0cdc7c637026ce16528ef53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6f28b91db0c521c7bc16ee8ebf38e4d87d17471ee5254c962e00de0921c84e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-15T16:58:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4037a6edc32267cbaecf2ed077958dbe81b438c7282658c827a9064002be1c32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.04593",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}