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
1985670
1986777
1987784
19881498
198923121
199026147
199132179
199241220
1993124344
1994251595
1995205800
19962371,037
19973371,374
19983911,765
19995272,292
20006312,923
20016263,549
20026524,201
20038635,064
200412736,337
200512787,615
200614439,058
2007158410,642
2008151512,157
2009150913,666
2010146215,128
2011125616,384
2012138917,773
2013142519,198
2014169820,896
2015151222,408
2016165624,064
2017177025,834
2018178927,623
2019185729,480
2020226831,748
2021183833,586
2022229635,882
2023222338,105
2024178239,887