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
198939166
199040206
199146252
199256308
1993184492
1994373865
19953071,172
19963411,513
19974962,009
19986242,633
19997923,425
20009124,337
20019575,294
200210146,308
200314417,749
200419969,745
2005226312,008
2006250114,509
2007275517,264
2008258119,845
2009265422,499
2010266225,161
2011241527,576
2012255830,134
2013274332,877
2014326536,142
2015279838,940
2016306342,003
2017329645,299
2018318048,479
2019345851,937
2020421656,153
2021358159,734
2022444664,180
2023434568,525
2024440872,933
2025309376,026