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
200315968,736
2004218710,923
2005246413,387
2006276716,154
2007313919,293
2008289422,187
2009299225,179
2010301128,190
2011281831,008
2012296733,975
2013325137,226
2014397441,200
2015334144,541
2016376848,309
2017421152,520
2018388756,407
2019429660,703
2020522565,928
2021484370,771
2022576776,538
2023559882,136
2024562987,765
2025225190,016