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
1993238591
19944851,076
19953721,448
19964161,864
19975762,440
19987673,207
19999664,173
200010765,249
200111126,361
200211797,540
200316719,211
2004228311,494
2005253914,033
2006288516,918
2007327120,189
2008303923,228
2009316226,390
2010316829,558
2011298632,544
2012316135,705
2013346739,172
2014424643,418
2015357846,996
2016407151,067
2017447055,537
2018414759,684
2019475664,440
2020569770,137
2021528275,419
2022629881,717
2023610287,819
2024185889,677