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
1993225564
19944451,009
19953461,355
19963911,746
19975502,296
19987283,024
19999143,938
200010244,962
200110596,021
200211177,138
200315958,733
2004219010,923
2005246113,384
2006277016,154
2007313619,290
2008289322,183
2009299225,175
2010301228,187
2011281631,003
2012296433,967
2013324537,212
2014396941,181
2015334044,521
2016376748,288
2017415152,439
2018389056,329
2019433160,660
2020521665,876
2021477870,654
2022578976,443
2023554981,992
2024509387,085