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
200210116,308
200314427,750
200419919,741
2005226312,004
2006250114,505
2007275417,259
2008258019,839
2009265822,497
2010265425,151
2011241827,569
2012256330,132
2013275032,882
2014325536,137
2015279638,933
2016305741,990
2017329345,283
2018316348,446
2019343751,883
2020417156,054
2021354759,601
2022439563,996
2023434068,336
2024125169,587