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
1991104398
199288486
1993361847
19946841,531
19954972,028
19965872,615
19977843,399
199811194,518
199912795,797
200014327,229
200114938,722
2002153810,260
2003215212,412
2004287615,288
2005304418,332
2006351021,842
2007403725,879
2008375729,636
2009384233,478
2010403437,512
2011386941,381
2012416645,547
2013466650,213
2014540555,618
2015465460,272
2016553665,808
2017556071,368
2018544776,815
2019602982,844
2020709389,937
2021645996,396
20227810104,206
20237387111,593
20247726119,319
20258628127,947
20261734129,681