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
199811674,648
199913636,011
200015027,513
200115779,090
2002163910,729
2003229413,023
2004305516,078
2005324619,324
2006378123,105
2007436727,472
2008406431,536
2009426735,803
2010446440,267
2011436944,636
2012472449,360
2013518054,540
2014602760,567
2015527665,843
2016602371,866
2017633678,202
2018618584,387
2019691991,306
2020820299,508
20217455106,963
20228901115,864
20238769124,633
20248946133,579
20254955138,534