PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 90%

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
19771225
1978328
1979533
1980336
1981844
19821862
19831072
19841183
19851093
19869102
198710112
198823135
198945180
199044224
199151275
199264339
1993225564
19944451,009
19953461,355
19963911,746
19975502,296
19987293,025
19999143,939
200010244,963
200110606,023
200211177,140
200315958,735
2004219010,925
2005246413,389
2006276816,157
2007313719,294
2008289422,188
2009299025,178
2010301228,190
2011281931,009
2012296633,975
2013325037,225
2014396941,194
2015334144,535
2016377048,305
2017412852,433
2018388256,315
2019433260,647
2020526865,915
2021476670,681
2022574776,428
2023559582,023
2024561087,633
2025217989,812