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
199811674,648
199913586,006
200014987,504
200115789,082
2002164010,722
2003229513,017
2004305316,070
2005324119,311
2006377723,088
2007436227,450
2008406531,515
2009427635,791
2010446440,255
2011437444,629
2012469249,321
2013526254,583
2014595660,539
2015536165,900
2016601871,918
2017627578,193
2018613684,329
2019694291,271
2020803799,308
20217540106,848
20228772115,620
20238536124,156
20243490127,646