It has been two months since we launched the Borderlands Science project. Your participation has been amazing: Hundreds of thousands of Borderlands fans joined the project and generated tens of millions of puzzle solutions that we are now analyzing. This is a lot of data...
In our last blog post, we described high level ideas and answered commonly asked questions about how and why Borderlands Science works. We also encouraged you to reach out to us via our subreddit to ask questions, and many of the questions we received touched...
What is the POINT of these puzzles? The goal is to align the DNA sequences of gut bacteria. DNA sequences contain important (but hidden) information about the function and ancestry of these bacteria. In the game, each column is a fragment of a sequence. By...
Borderlands Science is live! Today, we are happy to release our new project in collaboration with Gearbox Software, Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), and The Microsetta Initiative at UC San Diego School of Medicine! Borderlands Science is a mini-video game within Borderlands 3 that allows you contribute...