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
198922120
199026146
199132178
199241219
1993124343
1994252595
1995205800
19962371,037
19973371,374
19983901,764
19995272,291
20006312,922
20016253,547
20026504,197
20038625,059
200412746,333
200512777,610
200614419,051
2007158610,637
2008151412,151
2009150813,659
2010146415,123
2011125516,378
2012138817,766
2013142519,191
2014169520,886
2015151222,398
2016165824,056
2017177225,828
2018178727,615
2019185829,473
2020226231,735
2021183533,570
2022229835,868
2023222638,094
2024192740,021