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
198939166
199040206
199146252
199256308
1993184492
1994373865
19953071,172
19963421,514
19974952,009
19986242,633
19997933,426
20009124,338
20019575,295
200210146,309
200314407,749
200419969,745
2005226312,008
2006250014,508
2007275517,263
2008257919,842
2009265522,497
2010266125,158
2011241327,571
2012255830,129
2013274632,875
2014326736,142
2015280038,942
2016306142,003
2017329645,299
2018318348,482
2019357052,052
2020422356,275
2021362059,895
2022443964,334
2023439768,731
2024438573,116
2025303276,148