Pith Number

pith:YCBVDIPN

pith:2004:YCBVDIPNNWDMYXP2CDXM25HCUN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Global organization of metabolic fluxes in the bacterium, Escherichia coli

A.-L. Barabasi, B. Kovacs, E. Almaas, T. Vicsek, Z. N. Oltvai

arxiv:q-bio/0403001 v1 · 2004-02-28 · q-bio.MN · cond-mat.dis-nn · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YCBVDIPNNWDMYXP2CDXM25HCUN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:03.964395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c08351a1ed6d86cc5dfa10eecd74e2a37b69a42365be80f145ed6e14aec02977

Aliases

arxiv: q-bio/0403001 · arxiv_version: q-bio/0403001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0403001 · pith_short_12: YCBVDIPNNWDM · pith_short_16: YCBVDIPNNWDMYXP2 · pith_short_8: YCBVDIPN

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/YCBVDIPNNWDMYXP2CDXM25HCUN \
  | 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: c08351a1ed6d86cc5dfa10eecd74e2a37b69a42365be80f145ed6e14aec02977

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b7cb910ba2deebefd02337b00327e7ca95632f95f9e7a2319e4dd16599e554d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2004-02-28T20:28:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e86888985e2d8b2e481d049275338af11e6a6652f19106afed160925c4dd1382"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-bio/0403001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}