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
19987283,024
19999143,938
200010244,962
200110596,021
200211167,137
200315958,732
2004219010,922
2005246013,382
2006276916,151
2007313819,289
2008289522,184
2009299125,175
2010301228,187
2011282131,008
2012296333,971
2013324837,219
2014397441,193
2015334044,533
2016376448,297
2017408152,378
2018393756,315
2019433560,650
2020520165,851
2021479770,648
2022570176,349
2023553481,883
2024495186,834