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
19987683,210
19999654,175
200010785,253
200111136,366
200211807,546
200316759,221
2004228211,503
2005253914,042
2006288616,928
2007327420,202
2008303623,238
2009316026,398
2010316629,564
2011298532,549
2012315935,708
2013347239,180
2014424943,429
2015357247,001
2016405551,056
2017446955,525
2018420359,728
2019474464,472
2020580370,275
2021525275,527
2022634281,869
2023613087,999
2024621094,209
202526794,476