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
1993223562
19944451,007
19953481,355
19963971,752
19975502,302
19987283,030
19999133,943
200010234,966
200110586,024
200211167,140
200315928,732
2004218310,915
2005246113,376
2006277016,146
2007313919,285
2008289522,180
2009298925,169
2010301128,180
2011281830,998
2012296333,961
2013324037,201
2014397341,174
2015334244,516
2016377348,289
2017420152,490
2018393356,423
2019434260,765
2020526866,033
2021475370,786
2022572176,507
2023218278,689