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
19771427
1978330
1979636
1980339
1981948
19821866
19831076
19841187
19851097
19869106
198710116
198824140
198945185
199047232
199155287
199266353
1993240593
19944851,078
19953731,451
19964151,866
19975762,442
19987683,210
19999654,175
200010795,254
200111136,367
200211817,548
200316769,224
2004228311,507
2005254414,051
2006288916,940
2007327420,214
2008303723,251
2009316726,418
2010316729,585
2011298632,571
2012316435,735
2013347539,210
2014424543,455
2015357947,034
2016413951,173
2017450955,682
2018425859,940
2019477964,719
2020565770,376
2021528075,656
2022635682,012
2023614688,158
2024615394,311
2025154795,858