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
1993224563
19944451,008
19953481,356
19963931,749
19975492,298
19987283,026
19999143,940
200010254,965
200110596,024
200211177,141
200315968,737
2004219110,928
2005245913,387
2006276716,154
2007313919,293
2008289222,185
2009299125,176
2010301028,186
2011282431,010
2012296833,978
2013324937,227
2014396941,196
2015334344,539
2016376448,303
2017423652,539
2018387756,416
2019438560,801
2020525366,054
2021475770,811
2022571176,522
2023553282,054
2024298385,037