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
19987693,211
19999644,175
200010795,254
200111136,367
200211807,547
200316769,223
2004228211,505
2005254314,048
2006288716,935
2007327420,209
2008303723,246
2009316626,412
2010317429,586
2011298132,567
2012316435,731
2013347539,206
2014424743,453
2015357347,026
2016405051,076
2017450455,580
2018426159,841
2019477764,618
2020568470,302
2021531275,614
2022631581,929
2023613188,060
2024647894,538
2025341797,955