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)