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
1985569
1986776
1987783
19881497
198923120
199026146
199132178
199242220
1993124344
1994253597
1995204801
19962371,038
19973371,375
19983901,765
19995282,293
20006292,922
20016253,547
20026504,197
20038615,058
200412736,331
200512747,605
200614419,046
2007158610,632
2008151712,149
2009150513,654
2010146015,114
2011125716,371
2012138617,757
2013142619,183
2014169320,876
2015151122,387
2016165324,040
2017176925,809
2018178827,597
2019185429,451
2020226431,715
2021183133,546
2022229235,838
2023221638,054
2024227040,324
202589741,221