PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 95%

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
19771326
1978329
1979635
1980338
1981947
19821865
19831176
19841187
19851097
19869106
198710116
198823139
198946185
199047232
199151283
199265348
1993229577
19944721,049
19953701,419
19964021,821
19975742,395
19987793,174
19999734,147
200010695,216
200111166,332
200211867,518
200316769,194
2004229211,486
2005257114,057
2006291116,968
2007329320,261
2008305223,313
2009316326,476
2010319829,674
2011301632,690
2012316335,853
2013346239,315
2014428843,603
2015360647,209
2016408251,291
2017453455,825
2018426660,091
2019465864,749
2020564770,396
2021503875,434
2022635781,791
2023133183,122