Primary costs (based on listed academic & commercial CRO pricing):
~$300 to >$500 per LC-MS run +
~$300 to >$1500 per sample for sample procurement +
$$ bioinformatics labor costs
optional: $$$ for AI engineer's labor costs
Other Costs:
$30 to >$250 per sample for protein-level enrichments (e.g., nanoparticle enrichments)
$30 to >$250 per sample for peptide-level enrichments (e.g., glycopeptide / phosphopeptide enrichments etc.)
$$ for study design, project funding efforts (e.g, grant writing, budget justifications), documentation & commercialization (e.g., paper writing & publication, patent lawyer fees etc.)
=> real fully loaded costs: easily at least~$500 to substantially over $1000 per sample
=> But, only quantify those peptides fully identified from FASTA files (no dark proteome)
