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
199811684,649
199913636,012
200015027,514
200115789,092
2002163810,730
2003229313,023
2004305116,074
2005324719,321
2006377823,099
2007437027,469
2008406631,535
2009427035,805
2010446740,272
2011436844,640
2012474949,389
2013517754,566
2014596060,526
2015537565,901
2016600971,910
2017633078,240
2018625684,496
2019701791,513
2020818599,698
20217447107,145
20228779115,924
20238685124,609
20249100133,709
20254085137,794