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
1993125346
1994253599
1995205804
19962371,041
19973361,377
19983921,769
19995272,296
20006282,924
20016243,548
20026484,196
20038635,059
200412736,332
200512737,605
200614469,051
2007158610,637
2008151512,152
2009150913,661
2010145915,120
2011125616,376
2012139017,766
2013142519,191
2014168920,880
2015151022,390
2016167024,060
2017177325,833
2018180227,635
2019186629,501
2020228631,787
2021185533,642
2022228935,931
2023220438,135
2024232940,464
2025160942,073