Pith Number

pith:XUNLMHLF

pith:2003:XUNLMHLFBQSG7SHVXSEKD2SK6E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stabilization of microtubules due to microtubule-associated proteins: A simple model

Bindu S. Govindan, Jr. (Applied Biosciences Center, Virginia Tech), William B. Spillman

arxiv:q-bio/0312008 v1 · 2003-12-05 · q-bio.SC · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUNLMHLFBQSG7SHVXSEKD2SK6E}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:09.384124Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd1ab61d650c246fc8f5bc88a1ea4af1074b08c90c166163116ab42140603c22

Aliases

arxiv: q-bio/0312008 · arxiv_version: q-bio/0312008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0312008 · pith_short_12: XUNLMHLFBQSG · pith_short_16: XUNLMHLFBQSG7SHV · pith_short_8: XUNLMHLF

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/XUNLMHLFBQSG7SHVXSEKD2SK6E \
  | 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: bd1ab61d650c246fc8f5bc88a1ea4af1074b08c90c166163116ab42140603c22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bdae8b031b739bcff9f62ce6a91fbf802d0c87c7249534abff13c86be5f24f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-05T21:52:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f64f06fdb4fc02b2bd7a2cbcefb4e063d40c2410d783e94c7fda5abbb2b0bf2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-bio/0312008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}