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
1994374867
19953071,174
19963421,516
19974972,013
19986242,637
19997943,431
20009084,339
20019595,298
200210126,310
200314427,752
200419949,746
2005226312,009
2006250114,510
2007275417,264
2008258119,845
2009265522,500
2010265325,153
2011242127,574
2012255930,133
2013275032,883
2014327136,154
2015280438,958
2016305142,009
2017329845,307
2018316748,474
2019364352,117
2020416656,283
2021359359,876
2022442164,297
2023433168,628
2024375672,384