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
1993224563
19944451,008
19953481,356
19963971,753
19975502,303
19987283,031
19999143,945
200010234,968
200110586,026
200211177,143
200315968,739
2004219210,931
2005246013,391
2006276816,159
2007313719,296
2008289722,193
2009299225,185
2010301228,197
2011282431,021
2012296933,990
2013324737,237
2014396941,206
2015334444,550
2016376748,317
2017407652,393
2018389656,289
2019437260,661
2020525365,914
2021481670,730
2022577676,506
2023560282,108
2024198184,089