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I submit this in the hope that some sharp minds here can cast light on what seems to me like a rather unlikely proposition: That the human eye is better at detecting the shifts in "copy number" shown in the article.

While I applaud the general idea of turning a hard computational problem into a fun gaming experience, the particular problem solved in this game appears to be better suited for analysis with some simple image processing. No?