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Could you talk about the cost of buying nucleotides from TriLink and building the cap yourself versus the cost of having the end product cap as what you purchase; if not in dollar terms, maybe proportionate terms, like the end cap costs X percent more than buying the nucleotides and building it yourself, or is it just not that simple to think in those terms?

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It's not that simple because you have to navigate the IP space, and the ability to do that chemical synthesis and purification is a very high upfront investment, to have those capabilities established in-house. You can have a vessel with enzymatic reaction, but if you start going into the chemistry of that, that in itself has a whole layer of build out and upfront costs associated with those. Unless you're big pharma that has the capabilities, that's not something you can in-source, so to speak. Even then, you still have to navigate the IP space, so you can't simply build the same structure.

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