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
19881599
198924123
199026149
199132181
199242223
1993124347
1994253600
1995205805
19962371,042
19973361,378
19983921,770
19995272,297
20006282,925
20016253,550
20026484,198
20038625,060
200412716,331
200512737,604
200614479,051
2007158410,635
2008151612,151
2009150713,658
2010145815,116
2011125616,372
2012138917,761
2013142719,188
2014169020,878
2015151122,389
2016166924,058
2017177125,829
2018180227,631
2019186229,493
2020228131,774
2021185233,626
2022228835,914
2023220738,121
2024233140,452
2025164442,096