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
19771225
1978328
1979533
1980336
1981844
19821862
19831072
19841183
19851093
19869102
198710112
198823135
198945180
199044224
199151275
199264339
1993225564
19944461,010
19953461,356
19963911,747
19975512,298
19987303,028
19999143,942
200010254,967
200110606,027
200211187,145
200315948,739
2004218910,928
2005246213,390
2006276916,159
2007313719,296
2008289122,187
2009299225,179
2010301228,191
2011282131,012
2012296833,980
2013325137,231
2014396741,198
2015334244,540
2016378548,325
2017408252,407
2018391456,321
2019442060,741
2020523465,975
2021483370,808
2022576576,573
2023553582,108
2024573887,846
2025367191,517