PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 95%

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
19811046
19821864
19831175
19841186
19851298
19869107
198711118
198825143
198946189
199052241
199157298
199266364
1993232596
19944611,057
19953431,400
19964071,807
19975622,369
19987573,126
19998964,022
200010045,026
200110436,069
200211107,179
200315578,736
2004211910,855
2005233913,194
2006264315,837
2007296518,802
2008275721,559
2009281824,377
2010287527,252
2011263329,885
2012289032,775
2013309535,870
2014380039,670
2015313542,805
2016372446,529
2017396850,497
2018377054,267
2019412358,390
2020500363,393
2021453667,929
2022550173,430
2023523578,665
2024545684,121
2025619590,316
202697391,289