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
200110586,026
200211177,143
200315978,740
2004219010,930
2005246013,390
2006276716,157
2007313819,295
2008289722,192
2009299125,183
2010301328,196
2011282331,019
2012296933,988
2013323937,227
2014396141,188
2015334844,536
2016376248,298
2017417852,476
2018387656,352
2019435760,709
2020525765,966
2021475670,722
2022568976,411
2023559682,007
2024176883,775