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
198923120
199026146
199132178
199242220
1993124344
1994253597
1995204801
19962371,038
19973371,375
19983901,765
19995282,293
20006292,922
20016243,546
20026504,196
20038615,057
200412736,330
200512757,605
200614419,046
2007158510,631
2008151512,146
2009150813,654
2010145815,112
2011125616,368
2012139017,758
2013142519,183
2014169420,877
2015151222,389
2016165624,045
2017176825,813
2018178827,601
2019185629,457
2020226731,724
2021183233,556
2022229635,852
2023221638,068
2024226740,335
202596041,295