Pith Number

pith:CQY7XWQY

pith:2011:CQY7XWQYXUNFCLQOO6A5EKD6GK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Channels as Enzymes: Oxymoron and Tautology

Bob Eisenberg

arxiv:1112.2363 v3 · 2011-12-11 · q-bio.BM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQY7XWQYXUNFCLQOO6A5EKD6GK}

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:48.120069Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1431fbda18bd1a512e0e7781d2287e32a5e5732fd2dfda3e9aecf712e6706d7b

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.2363 · arxiv_version: 1112.2363v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.2363 · pith_short_12: CQY7XWQYXUNF · pith_short_16: CQY7XWQYXUNFCLQO · pith_short_8: CQY7XWQY

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/CQY7XWQYXUNFCLQOO6A5EKD6GK \
  | 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: 1431fbda18bd1a512e0e7781d2287e32a5e5732fd2dfda3e9aecf712e6706d7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90627d150b019ca4862841f559aa0f1a247a36860ade9c8ed80529ffdf7034c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.BM",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-11T14:42:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6218015822cedd1f71ba908b1bdf5d784fe2308d3071627d3caf29f1cb234c16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.2363",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}