Pith Number

pith:R5ULWN3Q

pith:2017:R5ULWN3Q5K2MLVZIN3GVAIGF6H

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Interrogating the Escherichia coli cell cycle by cell dimension perturbations

Ariel Amir, Bin Tang, Chenli Liu, Dengjin Li, Hai Zheng, Meiling Jiang, Nancy E. Kleckner, Po-Yi Ho, Weirong Liu, Xuefeng Yu

arxiv:1701.00587 v1 · 2017-01-03 · q-bio.CB

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:53:28.911778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f68bb3770eab4c5d7286ecd5020c5f1fe7671115d8b86161cba4ed5f50f1696

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.00587 · arxiv_version: 1701.00587v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.00587 · pith_short_12: R5ULWN3Q5K2M · pith_short_16: R5ULWN3Q5K2MLVZI · pith_short_8: R5ULWN3Q

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R5ULWN3Q5K2MLVZIN3GVAIGF6H \
  | 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: 8f68bb3770eab4c5d7286ecd5020c5f1fe7671115d8b86161cba4ed5f50f1696

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00b3cc80444159c23ac153b7aa237218f84ba93c71723d95e285d9c94bc122a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-03T05:07:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0471633bb0c1b464006d124d2183f4752f19e2282c65e118556723fb8f96685"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.00587",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}