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
199242220
1993124344
1994253597
1995204801
19962371,038
19973371,375
19983901,765
19995282,293
20006292,922
20016243,546
20026484,194
20038615,055
200412726,327
200512757,602
200614439,045
2007158510,630
2008151612,146
2009150613,652
2010146115,113
2011125516,368
2012138917,757
2013142419,181
2014169220,873
2015151222,385
2016165424,039
2017177125,810
2018178827,598
2019185429,452
2020226831,720
2021183233,552
2022229635,848
2023221738,065
2024226740,332
202592541,257