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
199266358
1993222580
19944371,017
19953271,344
19963911,735
19975412,276
19987172,993
19998433,836
20009484,784
200110045,788
200210616,849
200314908,339
2004204910,388
2005226612,654
2006252915,183
2007286318,046
2008264120,687
2009270023,387
2010273226,119
2011250328,622
2012270431,326
2013292134,247
2014358237,829
2015293540,764
2016343144,195
2017361147,806
2018336551,171
2019372154,892
2020464159,533
2021405163,584
2022494568,529
2023461873,147
2024480277,949
2025392781,876