PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 90%

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
19771023
1978326
1979632
1980436
1981844
19821862
19831173
19841184
19851296
19869105
198711116
198825141
198945186
199051237
199155292
199267359
1993221580
19944361,016
19953281,344
19963911,735
19975422,277
19987182,995
19998423,837
20009494,786
200110085,794
200210626,856
200314868,342
2004204410,386
2005226812,654
2006252715,181
2007286618,047
2008264520,692
2009269823,390
2010273826,128
2011250628,634
2012270531,339
2013292334,262
2014357737,839
2015293640,775
2016343044,205
2017361247,817
2018346451,281
2019368654,967
2020455759,524
2021399763,521
2022491968,440
2023462673,066
2024493478,000
2025555283,552
202662784,179