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
200110025,786
200210616,847
200314908,337
2004204810,385
2005226612,651
2006253015,181
2007286218,043
2008264220,685
2009269923,384
2010273426,118
2011250528,623
2012270531,328
2013292134,249
2014358237,831
2015293440,765
2016343044,195
2017361247,807
2018346951,276
2019367354,949
2020458459,533
2021401663,549
2022485068,399
2023462373,022
2024487277,894
2025434382,237