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
198924121
199026147
199132179
199242221
1993124345
1994253598
1995204802
19962371,039
19973371,376
19983911,767
19995282,295
20006312,926
20016243,550
20026494,199
20038625,061
200412746,335
200512747,609
200614459,054
2007158310,637
2008151412,151
2009150913,660
2010146115,121
2011125716,378
2012139017,768
2013142519,193
2014169120,884
2015151222,396
2016166724,063
2017176825,831
2018180327,634
2019186529,499
2020228531,784
2021185033,634
2022228935,923
2023220638,129
2024233140,460
2025137741,837