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
1994373866
19953071,173
19963421,515
19974972,012
19986242,636
19997933,429
20009114,340
20019585,298
200210126,310
200314417,751
200419959,746
2005226412,010
2006250014,510
2007275617,266
2008258319,849
2009265722,506
2010265525,161
2011241427,575
2012255730,132
2013274932,881
2014327236,153
2015280238,955
2016305042,005
2017328745,292
2018315248,444
2019352251,966
2020414856,114
2021355559,669
2022446364,132
2023435668,488
2024420772,695
2025169674,391