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
199913576,004
200015007,504
200115789,082
2002163910,721
2003229413,015
2004305016,065
2005324119,306
2006377523,081
2007437027,451
2008406531,516
2009427235,788
2010446440,252
2011436644,618
2012456549,183
2013514954,332
2014609460,426
2015528565,711
2016600071,711
2017634878,059
2018619784,256
2019695491,210
2020814399,353
20217513106,866
20228826115,692
20238572124,264
20247911132,175