PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 100%

This chart shows the annual and cumulative numbers of protein sequences in released PDB structures. The chart can be viewed for a few different levels of sequence identity since the beginning of the PDB archive. The cumulative bars represent the growth in unique protein sequences (number of polymeric entities) across history. The yearly bars (dark blue) tell how many new protein sequences were added in a certain year.

Note: The total number of sequence clusters in the statistics table is linked to the sequence cluster group search result page. There is a default precision threshold in calculating the numbers for performance balance. So the statistics count may have a slight discrepancy compared to the actual non-redundant group search result when the result count approaches or goes above 10,000. The group search result page provides an accurate count. The statistics page provides the trend.

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Sequence cluster level:

YearNumber of New Protein SequencesTotal Number of Protein Sequences
19761313
19771427
1978330
1979636
1980440
19811050
19821969
19831483
19841295
198510105
19869114
198710124
198842166
198948214
199077291
1991103394
199288482
1993376858
19947101,568
19955222,090
19965852,675
19978063,481
199811684,649
199913636,012
200015027,514
200115779,091
2002164110,732
2003229413,026
2004305616,082
2005324719,329
2006378023,109
2007436727,476
2008406731,543
2009427135,814
2010446840,282
2011436644,648
2012474549,393
2013522454,617
2014605760,674
2015529465,968
2016611472,082
2017631278,394
2018619684,590
2019698891,578
2020822199,799
20217445107,244
20228810116,054
20238640124,694
20248805133,499
20256534140,033