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
198923120
199026146
199132178
199241219
1993124343
1994251594
1995205799
19962371,036
19973371,373
19983911,764
19995282,292
20006312,923
20016263,549
20026524,201
20038625,063
200412726,335
200512777,612
200614429,054
2007158410,638
2008151512,153
2009150913,662
2010146415,126
2011125716,383
2012138917,772
2013142819,200
2014169720,897
2015151122,408
2016165324,061
2017176625,827
2018178727,614
2019185829,472
2020226231,734
2021183833,572
2022229935,871
2023222538,096
2024169939,795