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
1994375868
19953071,175
19963441,519
19974982,017
19986212,638
19997913,429
20009074,336
20019615,297
200210106,307
200314427,749
200419909,739
2005226312,002
2006249914,501
2007275617,257
2008258019,837
2009265822,495
2010265525,150
2011241927,569
2012256330,132
2013275232,884
2014326036,144
2015279938,943
2016305742,000
2017329545,295
2018316048,455
2019361452,069
2020416256,231
2021358059,811
2022439064,201
2023436168,562
2024128469,846