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
1985670
1986777
1987784
19881498
198922120
199026146
199132178
199241219
1993124343
1994253596
1995204800
19962371,037
19973361,373
19983901,763
19995282,291
20006302,921
20016253,546
20026504,196
20038615,057
200412736,330
200512787,608
200614399,047
2007158510,632
2008151612,148
2009150513,653
2010146215,115
2011125516,370
2012138917,759
2013142519,184
2014169720,881
2015151022,391
2016165924,050
2017176925,819
2018178727,606
2019185929,465
2020226231,727
2021183133,558
2022229435,852
2023222138,073
2024226940,342
202532140,663