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
198922120
199026146
199132178
199241219
1993124343
1994253596
1995204800
19962371,037
19973371,374
19983901,764
19995282,292
20006302,922
20016253,547
20026514,198
20038625,060
200412746,334
200512767,610
200614409,050
2007158510,635
2008151412,149
2009150913,658
2010146315,121
2011125516,376
2012138817,764
2013142619,190
2014169620,886
2015151222,398
2016165324,051
2017177025,821
2018178427,605
2019186029,465
2020226231,727
2021183733,564
2022229835,862
2023222838,090
2024195740,047