pirate (image generated by midjourney)

Legend has it that the ancient pirates of the kingdom of Bioinformatican have discovered the wondrous Amanita oceanica in the hidden ruins of Pretoria, South Africa.
It’s said that this mushroom could grant immortality. The pirates used the mushrooms to make themselves immortal, but unfortunately, they were not able to find a way out of the maze-like cave. They died without ever finding their way back home and became the first victims of Isiququmadevu.
Since then, nobody knows the way to the cave that holds the treasure. The only evidence that is the image and a secret message that we found on the cluster computer of the kingdom of Bioinformatican, believed to be uploaded by the pirates.
Historians have found that the message can be decoded with this tool. They believe the message could lead to the way to the cave. But without enough coding skills, they were unable to find out what the true message is.

The secret message: (decoded already)

YARRRR!!!!
So, I see that you want to find Amanita oceanica. I will tell you how to find it. But! You need to prove that you have proper skills in coding in Linux and bioinformatics knowledge!
There will be two more secret messages and you need to follow through them to get to the answer.
The first message is inside “message1/secret”, but which one is it?! Go to the fasta file in “message1”, find out the only sequence name that doesn’t start with “genus”. The number in that sequence name is what you need to find your next message!
You can decrypt the secret message with the tool you used for this message. The tool doesn’t care if there’s one line or multiple lines it seems.
YARRRR!!!!

To get the materials, get on to the cluster and run the followings

git clone https://github.com/YenWenWang/Invasion2022Treasurehunt.git
cd Invasion2022Treasurehunt

Good luck!