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
1994373866
19953071,173
19963421,515
19974972,012
19986242,636
19997933,429
20009114,340
20019595,299
200210126,311
200314417,752
200419969,748
2005226412,012
2006250014,512
2007275617,268
2008258319,851
2009265622,507
2010265625,163
2011241627,579
2012255630,135
2013274632,881
2014327136,152
2015280238,954
2016305042,004
2017329245,296
2018315948,455
2019355452,009
2020414156,150
2021356659,716
2022438264,098
2023433168,429
2024429972,728
2025177674,504