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
199255308
1993183491
1994377868
19953071,175
19963421,517
19974982,015
19986202,635
19997873,422
20009074,329
20019595,288
200210106,298
200314417,739
200419909,729
2005225911,988
2006249814,486
2007274917,235
2008258019,815
2009265222,467
2010264025,107
2011242027,527
2012254730,074
2013273032,804
2014326036,064
2015278838,852
2016304441,896
2017325945,155
2018314048,295
2019356751,862
2020417256,034
2021352459,558
2022435063,908
2023190465,812