Pith Number

pith:BY4WK455

pith:2015:BY4WK455KUE6ROU2DOL45REAG7

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Compaction of bacterial genomic DNA: Clarifying the concepts

Marc Joyeux

arxiv:1509.02382 v1 · 2015-09-08 · q-bio.BM · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BY4WK455KUE6ROU2DOL45REAG7}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:33:41.036111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e396573bd5509e8ba9a1b97cec48037c90b0ea1b8985953c85e90a3bb52d2c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.02382 · arxiv_version: 1509.02382v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.02382 · pith_short_12: BY4WK455KUE6 · pith_short_16: BY4WK455KUE6ROU2 · pith_short_8: BY4WK455

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BY4WK455KUE6ROU2DOL45REAG7 \
  | 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: 0e396573bd5509e8ba9a1b97cec48037c90b0ea1b8985953c85e90a3bb52d2c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac84101bd3c86d9bfd7622b7177bc32d81a4cb7966eabe07bcd8db7e327e13ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.BM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-08T14:20:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aae65349e058048eb1e31e2cbd072fa8e1aabce0042fd0f82d11359d624a5f39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.02382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}