Because Easter is coming, we’ve been hatching plans to host an Easter egg hunt with a difference.

Next week, from Monday 29th March until Friday 2nd April (Good Friday) we will be challenging you to find segments of the amino acid sequence of a certain egg-related protein. The sequences could be anywhere in Nature Network cyberspace e.g. hidden in forums, in blog posts, or on other sites that Nature Network uses; see here for some ideas.

To help you in the hunt, we’ll be tweeting four Easter-themed clues each day from our @NatNetNews account as well as posting the same clues here on Nature Network. We’ll be spreading the clues out over each day to try to make things fair in as many time zones as possible.

You need to collect as many of the sequences as you can and then email us after 10pm on Friday 2nd telling us, in order, which sequences you found and where you found them. The first person to send us the most correct answers after the deadline will win a free online Nature subscription. You can send entries up until 10pm on Easter Monday and if there’s more than one person with the same number of correct answers, we’ll hold a draw to decide the winner.

Happy Hunting!

P.S. – If you find a sequence in your blog or forum, please keep it secret. You’re still allowed to enter, but please don’t make the locations of any sequences public as you’ll be disqualified from the competition (and spoil the fun for everyone else).