Pith Number

pith:WZHCIIBB

pith:2012:WZHCIIBBLPCP74ZYRJ53RSP55U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Signalling noise enhances chemotactic drift of E. coli

Filipe Tostevin, Marlo Flores, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Thomas S. Shimuzu

arxiv:1208.5360 v2 · 2012-08-27 · q-bio.CB · q-bio.SC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZHCIIBBLPCP74ZYRJ53RSP55U}

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:04.118848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b64e2420215bc4fff3388a7bb8c9fded0d93c3c78a7187ff257b5bc4e7b7c598

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5360 · arxiv_version: 1208.5360v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5360 · pith_short_12: WZHCIIBBLPCP · pith_short_16: WZHCIIBBLPCP74ZY · pith_short_8: WZHCIIBB

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/WZHCIIBBLPCP74ZYRJ53RSP55U \
  | 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: b64e2420215bc4fff3388a7bb8c9fded0d93c3c78a7187ff257b5bc4e7b7c598

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4fd882ad8f36a45b838452be8bb04c5c0cbca4fd78fdc6c8801cf94f7f8ec60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-27T11:00:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b281436e21bed3a04518fec054becf2ced8640ca358ed44e8d9533b965b9a3e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5360",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}