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
20006302,925
20016243,549
20026504,199
20038625,061
200412746,335
200512757,610
200614469,056
2007158410,640
2008151312,153
2009150913,662
2010145915,121
2011125616,377
2012138817,765
2013142419,189
2014169020,879
2015151222,391
2016166824,059
2017177125,830
2018180527,635
2019186629,501
2020228431,785
2021185433,639
2022228235,921
2023220138,122
2024232740,449
2025129341,742