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
19963921,748
19975502,298
19987283,026
19999143,940
200010254,965
200110596,024
200211177,141
200315958,736
2004219110,927
2005245913,386
2006276716,153
2007313819,291
2008289522,186
2009299125,177
2010301128,188
2011282631,014
2012296533,979
2013324737,226
2014397141,197
2015334344,540
2016376748,307
2017413452,441
2018393256,373
2019429360,666
2020525965,925
2021472170,646
2022571076,356
2023553981,895
2024385185,746