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
20016253,545
20026524,197
20038615,058
200412726,330
200512757,605
200614399,044
2007158110,625
2008151612,141
2009151113,652
2010146115,113
2011125516,368
2012138917,757
2013142419,181
2014169520,876
2015151122,387
2016165824,045
2017176625,811
2018178527,596
2019186129,457
2020226031,717
2021183533,552
2022229535,847
2023222438,071
2024226740,338
20253740,375