PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 70%

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
19771124
1978327
1979229
1980332
1981739
19821857
1983865
19841176
19851086
1986995
198710105
198822127
198940167
199040207
199146253
199256309
1993184493
1994375868
19953071,175
19963421,517
19974982,015
19986242,639
19997913,430
20009084,338
20019605,298
200210126,310
200314427,752
200419939,745
2005226112,006
2006250014,506
2007275617,262
2008258219,844
2009265622,500
2010265525,155
2011241727,572
2012256130,133
2013274532,878
2014326836,146
2015280738,953
2016305142,004
2017329845,302
2018316848,470
2019351951,989
2020418256,171
2021361359,784
2022440064,184
2023434068,524
2024301171,535