Pith Number

pith:3L4YVEJQ

pith:2012:3L4YVEJQKAVIX3ILQJID2YBZVE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reference Based Genome Compression

Albert No, Alexandros Manolakos, Bobbie Chern, Idoia Ochoa, Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman

arxiv:1204.1912 v1 · 2012-04-09 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3L4YVEJQKAVIX3ILQJID2YBZVE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:09.710925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

daf98a9130502a8bed0b82503d6039a928822d257cc9f6761cde6484b505a613

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.1912 · arxiv_version: 1204.1912v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.1912 · pith_short_12: 3L4YVEJQKAVI · pith_short_16: 3L4YVEJQKAVIX3IL · pith_short_8: 3L4YVEJQ

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/3L4YVEJQKAVIX3ILQJID2YBZVE \
  | 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: daf98a9130502a8bed0b82503d6039a928822d257cc9f6761cde6484b505a613

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b82bd1e63dd92ebe6b06a182f2948c8f5d2d975c1f6be14e28e51473f2317a77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-09T16:02:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b93c55ffa236188e844e7a228d7e6c907b5ce612b6fe5fc38ee08ee2014abc71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.1912",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}