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
19963971,753
19975502,303
19987283,031
19999143,945
200010234,968
200110576,025
200211157,140
200315968,736
2004219010,926
2005245913,385
2006276716,152
2007313819,290
2008289722,187
2009299125,178
2010301228,190
2011282431,014
2012296833,982
2013324437,226
2014396741,193
2015334444,537
2016376548,302
2017416552,467
2018388056,347
2019434160,688
2020524265,930
2021485970,789
2022569876,487
2023561282,099
2024172983,828