Pith Number

pith:MRXUNB4G

pith:2019:MRXUNB4G5X2FJJV7OGS3ENDBFW

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A perspective on Microscopy Metadata: data provenance and quality control

Alexander D. Corbett, Alex Laude, Alex Rigano, Alison J. North, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, Claire M. Brown, Damir Sudar, David Grunwald, Glyn Nelson, Jaime A. Pimentel, James J. Chambers, Judith Lacoste, Mathias Hammer, Maximiliaan Huisman, Nathalie Gaudreault, Orestis Faklaris, Peter Bajcsy, Roland Nitschke, Ulrike Boehm

arxiv:1910.11370 v6 · 2019-10-24 · q-bio.QM · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRXUNB4G5X2FJJV7OGS3ENDBFW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:44:47.369012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

646f468786edf454a6bf71a5b234612d85677ad7cad1f7769d7014a765f084d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1910.11370 · arxiv_version: 1910.11370v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.11370 · pith_short_12: MRXUNB4G5X2F · pith_short_16: MRXUNB4G5X2FJJV7 · pith_short_8: MRXUNB4G

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/MRXUNB4G5X2FJJV7OGS3ENDBFW \
  | 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: 646f468786edf454a6bf71a5b234612d85677ad7cad1f7769d7014a765f084d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b145e45cbd68f542b2f44de0a050fc2585b5b8d78f105c23ce29043a7ca95321",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2019-10-24T18:33:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "092118e299d1352b6f82a3e392c710645ef1c9dcd722d6b98231b101ef3f73d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1910.11370",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}