Figure 1. Lengths and costs of different oligo and gene synthesis technologies.

Commercial oligo synthesis from traditional vendors (pink) and array-based technologies (brown) are plotted according to commonly available length scales and price points. Costs of gene synthesis from commercial providers for cloned, sequence-verified genes (dark green) and unpurified DNA assemblies (light green) are shown, as are costs of gene synthesis from oligo pools (blue) derived from academic reports^39,40.