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
19831072
19841183
19851295
19869104
198711115
198825140
198944184
199052236
199155291
199267358
1993222580
19944451,025
19953401,365
19963911,756
19975432,299
19987393,038
19998673,905
20009734,878
200110255,903
200210987,001
200315428,543
2004207910,622
2005234112,963
2006258215,545
2007294718,492
2008272221,214
2009277723,991
2010281526,806
2011256129,367
2012277832,145
2013308935,234
2014391139,145
2015309942,244
2016366145,905
2017373149,636
2018375053,386
2019402657,412
2020503462,446
2021458567,031
2022544572,476
2023534877,824
2024566083,484
2025622589,709
2026397893,687