This isn't just any picture of a microarray --- it's a cryptogram with a $1,500 message.
GEN along with partner, Scintellix, and sponsor, Agilent, brought you the Microarray Challenge.
Peter C. Johnson, M.D., president and CEO of Scintellix, created this painting called 'MicroArray.' He has embedded a cipher based on the dots in the pastel.
The Microarray Challenge was a huge success and we now have a winner! The code has been successfully cracked.
More details on the winner and the hidden message will be revealed an article to be published in the February 1 or February 15 issue of GEN. You will also be able to read this story online, so don't forget to check back.
Here are the clues we released during the challenge, which ran between November 14 and December 31:
Clue 1: The code is read from left to right, beginning with the upper leftmost corner.
Clue 2: Colors from similar spectral families are considered to be the same (example: pink is equal to red)
Clue 3: It is a triplet code
Clue 4: The only spectral families that code (alone or in combination) for actual letters are yellow, green and red.
Clue 5: The dots on the bottom line of MicroArray code for blanks.
Clue 6: The answer is a statement having six words and the following letters are not used: J, K, L, M, P, Q, R, U, V, X, Y, Z.
Clue 7: In the triplet code, three adjacent dots code for each letter, which should be placed at the site of the center dot. Words are created from abutting triplet-coded letters. The code for the letter 'e' is 'yellow green green' and the code for the letter 'n' is 'green red green'.
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