PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 100%

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
1980440
19811050
19821969
19831483
19841295
198510105
19869114
198710124
198842166
198948214
199077291
1991103394
199288482
1993376858
19947111,569
19955222,091
19965842,675
19978053,480
199811674,647
199913596,006
200014997,505
200115789,083
2002163810,721
2003229213,013
2004305116,064
2005324219,306
2006377723,083
2007436127,444
2008406931,513
2009427335,786
2010446040,246
2011437444,620
2012448049,100
2013517554,275
2014602260,297
2015528365,580
2016607871,658
2017631077,968
2018623484,202
2019691291,114
2020809299,206
20217439106,645
20228762115,407
20238648124,055
20244734128,789