Pith Number

pith:ZEJUGG4R

pith:2012:ZEJUGG4RWAMGVQJCBUFXOKNARJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information Theory of DNA Shotgun Sequencing

Abolfazl Motahari, David Tse, Guy Bresler

arxiv:1203.6233 v4 · 2012-03-28 · cs.IT · math.IT · q-bio.GN · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZEJUGG4RWAMGVQJCBUFXOKNARJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:33:38.695380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c913431b91b0186ac1220d0b7729a08a5b200a0458d8f42ba00e84a9d9768c0d

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6233 · arxiv_version: 1203.6233v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6233 · pith_short_12: ZEJUGG4RWAMG · pith_short_16: ZEJUGG4RWAMGVQJC · pith_short_8: ZEJUGG4R

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/ZEJUGG4RWAMGVQJCBUFXOKNARJ \
  | 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: c913431b91b0186ac1220d0b7729a08a5b200a0458d8f42ba00e84a9d9768c0d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdd76430ab40e02d4d4676f2d835e82ef0b808440ac68b62ad2839a34af819f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.GN",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-28T11:27:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "744baba8d39c3a1b9e82608305cd8bc71c957d7d8617e9b8938cbbbd328e562b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6233",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}