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
199913626,011
200015027,513
200115779,090
2002164110,731
2003229313,024
2004305616,080
2005324819,328
2006378023,108
2007436827,476
2008406731,543
2009427135,814
2010446640,280
2011437044,650
2012448549,135
2013517154,306
2014604860,354
2015529265,646
2016598271,628
2017632077,948
2018617784,125
2019694591,070
2020813799,207
20217593106,800
20228878115,678
20238521124,199
20248926133,125
20256233139,358