At 10¢/bp, that's <$100/gene for most averaged-sized proteins. That price range makes producing novel proteins competitively priced over the tedious effort of

At 10¢/bp, that's <$100/gene for most averaged-sized proteins. That price range makes producing novel proteins competitively priced over the tedious effort of stitching up chimeras from preexisting templates. Scientifically there's a lot that can be done if you can order proteins from scratch rather than having to scrounge around and copy/paste from what you already have access to. However, that de novo synthesis is currently only economically accessible to very few scientists/companies. This new cheap synthesis will effectively make economical the 'writing of new code' rather than the current state of 'copy and paste from github, with a couple of minor modifications', and will bring commensurate advances to the industry. This will drop a significant barrier to the progress of synthetic biology and its downstream uses.