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
19771023
1978326
1979632
1980436
1981844
19821862
19831173
19841184
19851296
19869105
198711116
198825141
198945186
199051237
199155292
199267359
1993221580
19944361,016
19953281,344
19963911,735
19975422,277
19987182,995
19998433,838
20009514,789
200110085,797
200210616,858
200314898,347
2004204610,393
2005227012,663
2006252615,189
2007286318,052
2008265020,702
2009269723,399
2010273826,137
2011250528,642
2012271031,352
2013292634,278
2014358237,860
2015293740,797
2016342544,222
2017361247,834
2018345451,288
2019369454,982
2020458659,568
2021395163,519
2022492968,448
2023468973,137
2024485077,987
2025555683,543
202685784,400