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
1981634
19821650
1983454
1984963
1985568
1986775
1987782
19881496
198923119
199026145
199132177
199241218
1993124342
1994251593
1995205798
19962381,036
19973351,371
19983911,762
19995302,292
20006322,924
20016243,548
20026534,201
20038605,061
200412696,330
200512767,606
200614409,046
2007158110,627
2008151212,139
2009151313,652
2010146215,114
2011126116,375
2012138717,762
2013142819,190
2014169920,889
2015151422,403
2016165024,053
2017176825,821
2018178627,607
2019185729,464
2020225831,722
2021183533,557
2022229335,850
2023222938,079
202471838,797