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
198924122
199026148
199132180
199242222
1993124346
1994253599
1995204803
19962371,040
19973371,377
19983911,768
19995282,296
20006302,926
20016243,550
20026494,199
20038625,061
200412736,334
200512747,608
200614459,053
2007158510,638
2008151612,154
2009150813,662
2010145915,121
2011125816,379
2012138917,768
2013142419,192
2014168920,881
2015151022,391
2016166924,060
2017177325,833
2018180427,637
2019186329,500
2020228631,786
2021185433,640
2022228735,927
2023220438,131
2024233240,463
2025144041,903