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
199241219
1993124343
1994251594
1995205799
19962371,036
19973371,373
19983911,764
19995282,292
20006312,923
20016263,549
20026524,201
20038635,064
200412736,337
200512777,614
200614399,053
2007158310,636
2008151612,152
2009151213,664
2010146615,130
2011126016,390
2012138617,776
2013142719,203
2014169820,901
2015150922,410
2016164724,057
2017176625,823
2018178627,609
2019186029,469
2020226431,733
2021183433,567
2022229435,861
2023222038,081
2024120239,283