PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 30%

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
19761111
19771122
1978325
1979126
1980228
1981735
19821651
1983455
1984964
1985569
1986776
1987783
19881497
198922119
199026145
199132177
199241218
1993124342
1994253595
1995204799
19962371,036
19973371,373
19983901,763
19995282,291
20006292,920
20016263,546
20026504,196
20038615,057
200412726,329
200512767,605
200614409,045
2007158110,626
2008151512,141
2009150913,650
2010146015,110
2011125516,365
2012138617,751
2013142619,177
2014169520,872
2015151222,384
2016165724,041
2017176725,808
2018178627,594
2019186029,454
2020226231,716
2021183733,553
2022229935,852
2023222238,074
2024226540,339
20257740,416