PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 95%

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
1980339
1981948
19821866
19831076
19841187
19851097
19869106
198710116
198824140
198945185
199047232
199155287
199266353
1993240593
19944851,078
19953731,451
19964151,866
19975762,442
19987693,211
19999644,175
200010795,254
200111136,367
200211817,548
200316779,225
2004228311,508
2005254214,050
2006288816,938
2007327220,210
2008304023,250
2009316526,415
2010317329,588
2011298232,570
2012316135,731
2013347539,206
2014424343,449
2015357347,022
2016401251,034
2017448555,519
2018426959,788
2019482864,616
2020576470,380
2021532575,705
2022636982,074
2023604388,117
2024648294,599
2025388498,483