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
1993225564
19944461,010
19953461,356
19963911,747
19975512,298
19987383,036
19999163,952
200010254,977
200110606,037
200211187,155
200315988,753
2004219210,945
2005246713,412
2006277416,186
2007313719,323
2008289522,218
2009299225,210
2010301928,229
2011282231,051
2012297334,024
2013324737,271
2014396541,236
2015334844,584
2016378548,369
2017413152,500
2018395556,455
2019434760,802
2020533766,139
2021487071,009
2022576276,771
2023560182,372
2024582388,195
2025433492,529