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
19947111,569
19955222,091
19965842,675
19978053,480
199811674,647
199913586,005
200014997,504
200115789,082
2002164010,722
2003229513,017
2004305416,071
2005324119,312
2006377523,087
2007436627,453
2008406531,518
2009427635,794
2010446840,262
2011437444,636
2012459049,226
2013513954,365
2014604360,408
2015531765,725
2016603271,757
2017635478,111
2018619284,303
2019696491,267
2020808899,355
20217456106,811
20228896115,707
20238476124,183
20243091127,274