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
19975512,297
19987303,027
19999143,941
200010244,965
200110606,025
200211167,141
200315968,737
2004218910,926
2005246413,390
2006276916,159
2007313819,297
2008289622,193
2009299225,185
2010301228,197
2011282131,018
2012296933,987
2013325237,239
2014396941,208
2015334344,551
2016378348,334
2017401652,350
2018391256,262
2019438560,647
2020531865,965
2021479670,761
2022568676,447
2023552381,970
2024582087,790
2025315290,942