Biotechnology Production Statistics
(May, 2011)

Major Services	Start Year	Grand Totals
DNA Synthesis	1983	287,092  oligonucleotides
Peptide Synthesis	1985	17,611 peptides
DNA Sequence Analysis	1988	2,009,632 templates (933 million bases)
Protein Sequence Analysis	1993	1,675 protein samples
Affymetrix Analysis	2000	35,438 GeneChips
Molecular Interaction Analysis	2000	1,991 AUC / MALS samples, 43,239 Biacore SPR injections
Custom Microarray Analysis	2001	10,058 custom microarrays
Custom Genotyping Analysis	2002	123,667 assays
Proteomics Analysis	2002	12,661 protein IDs, 1,583 intact mass, 350 2D-gel analyses, 524 special projects
Genome Sequencing	2008	782 billion bases (536 Gb eukaryote, 169 Gb prokaryote, 77 Gb viral)