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
1985670
1986777
1987784
19881498
198923121
199026147
199132179
199241220
1993124344
1994251595
1995205800
19962371,037
19973361,373
19983911,764
19995282,292
20006312,923
20016263,549
20026524,201
20038625,063
200412746,337
200512777,614
200614439,057
2007158210,639
2008151512,154
2009151013,664
2010146215,126
2011125816,384
2012138517,769
2013142519,194
2014169720,891
2015151422,405
2016165424,059
2017176925,828
2018178427,612
2019186029,472
2020226731,739
2021183633,575
2022229235,867
2023222438,091
2024156739,658