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
19965842,675
19978053,480
199811674,647
199913596,006
200014997,505
200115789,083
2002164010,723
2003229413,017
2004305416,071
2005323919,310
2006377523,085
2007436727,452
2008406631,518
2009427735,795
2010446740,262
2011437444,636
2012471049,346
2013511254,458
2014604360,501
2015531165,812
2016604071,852
2017635478,206
2018617984,385
2019694391,328
2020805099,378
20217395106,773
20228928115,701
20238458124,159
20243089127,248