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
1994374867
19953071,174
19963421,516
19974962,012
19986242,636
19997933,429
20009094,338
20019585,296
200210136,309
200314417,750
200419939,743
2005226312,006
2006250014,506
2007275617,262
2008258319,845
2009265722,502
2010265425,156
2011241927,575
2012255930,134
2013274932,883
2014327036,153
2015280138,954
2016305042,004
2017329245,296
2018317048,466
2019335751,823
2020415355,976
2021358259,558
2022447964,037
2023429268,329
2024419772,526