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
1991105399
199288487
1993361848
19946821,530
19954982,028
19965882,616
19977873,403
199811194,522
199912795,801
200014327,233
200114938,726
2002154010,266
2003215312,419
2004287315,292
2005304118,333
2006351021,843
2007403925,882
2008375529,637
2009384333,480
2010403337,513
2011387541,388
2012416145,549
2013462450,173
2014544355,616
2015461660,232
2016542765,659
2017560571,264
2018538076,644
2019599882,642
2020700589,647
2021652596,172
20227604103,776
20237548111,324
20247734119,058
20257659126,717