Biotechnology Production Statistics
(May, 2010)

Major Services Start Year Grand Totals
DNA Synthesis 1983 267,843  oligonucleotides
Peptide Synthesis 1985 16,697 peptides
DNA Sequence Analysis 1988 1,807,296 templates
(852 million bases)
Protein Sequence Analysis 1993 1,675 protein samples
Affymetrix Analyses 2000 28,836 GeneChips (14,500 expression, 14,336 mapping)
Molecular Interaction Analysis 2000 1,161 AUC / MALS samples,
35,943 Biacore SPR injections
Custom Microarray Analyses 2001 9,311 custom microarrays
Genotypes 2002 86,056 samples
Proteomics Analyses 2002 12,661 protein IDs, 1,583 intact mass, 350 2D-gel analyses,
524 special projects
Genome Sequencing 2008 280 billion bases
(152 Gb eukaryote, 76 Gb prokaryote, 52 Gb viral)