PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 95%

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
1980339
1981948
19821866
19831076
19841187
19851097
19869106
198710116
198824140
198945185
199047232
199155287
199266353
1993240593
19944851,078
19953731,451
19964151,866
19975762,442
19987683,210
19999644,174
200010795,253
200111136,366
200211817,547
200316769,223
2004228311,506
2005254214,048
2006288816,936
2007327220,208
2008303723,245
2009316626,411
2010316829,579
2011298632,565
2012316535,730
2013347439,204
2014424343,447
2015357547,022
2016413451,156
2017450755,663
2018424359,906
2019473664,642
2020574770,389
2021524775,636
2022634281,978
2023623688,214
2024622094,434
2025237196,805