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
19881598
198922120
199026146
199132178
199241219
1993124343
1994253596
1995204800
19962371,037
19973371,374
19983901,764
19995282,292
20006302,922
20016253,547
20026514,198
20038615,059
200412736,332
200512767,608
200614389,046
2007158310,629
2008151612,145
2009151013,655
2010145915,114
2011125516,369
2012138817,757
2013142619,183
2014169620,879
2015151222,391
2016165924,050
2017177025,820
2018178527,605
2019185929,464
2020226331,727
2021183833,565
2022229935,864
2023222338,087
2024220540,292