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
19771225
1978328
1979634
1980539
19811049
19821968
19831381
19841293
198512105
19869114
198711125
198843168
198945213
199081294
1991105399
199288487
1993361848
19946821,530
19954972,027
19965892,616
19977873,403
199811194,522
199912805,802
200014327,234
200114938,727
2002153910,266
2003215212,418
2004287615,294
2005304318,337
2006351421,851
2007403425,885
2008375429,639
2009384433,483
2010402937,512
2011387441,386
2012416745,553
2013469750,250
2014546355,713
2015469760,410
2016538465,794
2017557971,373
2018545076,823
2019613382,956
2020701589,971
2021653696,507
20227620104,127
20237393111,520
20247730119,250
20256142125,392