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
19771023
1978326
1979632
1980436
19811046
19821864
19831175
19841186
19851298
19869107
198711118
198825143
198946189
199052241
199157298
199266364
1993232596
19944621,058
19953431,401
19964061,807
19975632,370
19987573,127
19998954,022
200010035,025
200110466,071
200211097,180
200315578,737
2004211710,854
2005234013,194
2006263915,833
2007296318,796
2008275921,555
2009281724,372
2010287227,244
2011263529,879
2012288932,768
2013309035,858
2014380339,661
2015314142,802
2016372146,523
2017395950,482
2018373754,219
2019408258,301
2020505663,357
2021455967,916
2022549873,414
2023518578,599
2024553984,138
2025541289,550