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
19944451,009
19953461,355
19963911,746
19975512,297
19987303,027
19999143,941
200010254,966
200110606,026
200211187,144
200315968,740
2004218910,929
2005246413,393
2006276716,160
2007313619,296
2008289622,192
2009298925,181
2010301228,193
2011281931,012
2012296933,981
2013325137,232
2014397141,203
2015334444,547
2016378548,332
2017408152,413
2018389056,303
2019434260,645
2020535465,999
2021482870,827
2022577676,603
2023560482,207
2024584888,055
2025343891,493