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
19947101,568
19955222,090
19965852,675
19978063,481
199811684,649
199913636,012
200015027,514
200115759,089
2002164110,730
2003229413,024
2004305416,078
2005324619,324
2006378023,104
2007436627,470
2008406631,536
2009427135,807
2010446640,273
2011436944,642
2012452349,165
2013515654,321
2014595560,276
2015532565,601
2016609771,698
2017628377,981
2018627584,256
2019704091,296
2020810899,404
20217520106,924
20228797115,721
20238682124,403
20249041133,444
20256712140,156