PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 100%

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
19771427
1978330
1979636
1980440
19811050
19821969
19831483
19841295
198510105
19869114
198710124
198842166
198948214
199077291
1991103394
199288482
1993376858
19947111,569
19955222,091
19965842,675
19978053,480
199811674,647
199913596,006
200014997,505
200115779,082
2002163810,720
2003229313,013
2004305416,067
2005324119,308
2006377623,084
2007436727,451
2008406931,520
2009427135,791
2010446440,255
2011436744,622
2012461449,236
2013518654,422
2014604660,468
2015530665,774
2016605771,831
2017629478,125
2018620084,325
2019696191,286
2020806399,349
20217516106,865
20228819115,684
20238760124,444
20246472130,916