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
19965852,676
19978053,481
199811664,647
199913596,006
200014987,504
200115789,082
2002163810,720
2003229413,014
2004305216,066
2005324119,307
2006377723,084
2007436427,448
2008406731,515
2009427535,790
2010446540,255
2011437544,630
2012462749,257
2013519454,451
2014600760,458
2015538565,843
2016605471,897
2017636678,263
2018614684,409
2019689991,308
2020800699,314
20217516106,830
20228843115,673
20238671124,344
20242683127,027