Pith Number

pith:A3VPTARM

pith:2016:A3VPTARMSZAD5743F6BA2TQSHG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rubbish DNA: The functionless fraction of the human genome

Dan Graur

arxiv:1601.06047 v1 · 2016-01-22 · q-bio.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3VPTARMSZAD5743F6BA2TQSHG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:09.429405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06eaf9822c96403eff9b2f820d4e123997986d62264bb96f7ede4666ff25b59b

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06047 · arxiv_version: 1601.06047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06047 · pith_short_12: A3VPTARMSZAD · pith_short_16: A3VPTARMSZAD5743 · pith_short_8: A3VPTARM

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/A3VPTARMSZAD5743F6BA2TQSHG \
  | 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: 06eaf9822c96403eff9b2f820d4e123997986d62264bb96f7ede4666ff25b59b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae1465378f323d6238ca94515549ead57c8acecb7607c8106d20166bf33fac74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-22T15:41:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7c4b43a4891d997b8ffe37efaa7bfa385042c59780d379c9b586a123090f3ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}