Size and Redundancy of 43,000 Entries
in the Protein Data Bank (PDB)
April 2007 by Eric Martz for Protein Explorer.


Method Molecular Weight* Non-Redundant Sequences
(<30% Identity)
X-Ray
85% of PDB		 Median: 45,000
90% < 145,000		 22% Unique 25% Unique
NMR
15% of PDB		 Median: 9,300
90% < 19,000		 55% Unique
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*Insulin 5,800;   Lysozyme 15,000
Albumin 70,000;   Taq DNA Polymerase 94,000
Antibody 150,000;   Chaperonin GROEL/S 875,000