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
1977821
1978324
1979226
1980430
1981838
19821755
1983964
19841074
19851286
1986995
198711106
198823129
198940169
199040209
199150259
199260319
1993181500
1994347847
19952741,121
19963291,450
19974581,908
19985902,498
19997073,205
20008144,019
20018714,890
20029295,819
200313177,136
200418188,954
2005199810,952
2006223013,182
2007245215,634
2008228317,917
2009230320,220
2010229622,516
2011205524,571
2012220326,774
2013233529,109
2014282131,930
2015228834,218
2016256736,785
2017268039,465
2018260742,072
2019278544,857
2020344948,306
2021275451,060
2022351954,579
2023340657,985
2024348261,467
2025321364,680