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The challenge is a FASTQ file. This format is used for DNA and each read (DNA sequence) uses 4 lines:

1. The read ID
2. DNA
3. Nothing important
4. Quality scores

You can solve this using two approaches: 1) identify the read with higher quality scores (everything as I); or 2) getting all DNA sequences and decode them. The encoding map of the ACGT is the following:

- "A":"00"
- "C":"01"
- "G":"10"
- "T":"11"

Then, convert the binary to ASCII.

The read with higher quality scores is the following:
```
CAATCCCACACGCCCCCAACCTGTCGCCCGTGCGATATAACGTGCGCAATACCGTGCGCTCCTTCGTCATAACTAGCGCCCCTTCTCACGGAATCACGTGCCTTCGCACGTGATCACTTC
```

The binary representation of this read using this mapping is the following:
```
010000110101010001000110010101010100000101111011011001010110111001100011001100000110111001100100001100010110111001100111010111110110110100110000011100100110010101011111011101000110100000110100011011100101111101100100011011100011010001111101
```

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CTFUA{enc0nd1ng_m0re_th4n_dn4}

NeionsecDec. 17, 2021, 3:22 a.m.

It would be very helpful if you could show it with pictures