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
19771023
1978326
1979632
1980436
1981844
19821862
19831173
19841184
19851296
19869105
198711116
198825141
198945186
199051237
199155292
199266358
1993222580
19944371,017
19953271,344
19963911,735
19975412,276
19987172,993
19998433,836
20009484,784
200110035,787
200210616,848
200314898,337
2004204710,384
2005226612,650
2006252915,179
2007286218,041
2008264120,682
2009269923,381
2010273626,117
2011250228,619
2012270331,322
2013292234,244
2014358237,826
2015293640,762
2016343044,192
2017361547,807
2018319851,005
2019364154,646
2020459759,243
2021396863,211
2022493068,141
2023469772,838
2024485377,691
2025419081,881