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
1977821
1978324
1979226
1980430
1981838
19821755
1983964
19841074
19851286
1986995
198711106
198823129
198940169
199040209
199149258
199260318
1993181499
1994347846
19952751,121
19963291,450
19974581,908
19985902,498
19997073,205
20008154,020
20018714,891
20029295,820
200313177,137
200418208,957
2005199710,954
2006222813,182
2007245515,637
2008228617,923
2009230120,224
2010229722,521
2011205224,573
2012220026,773
2013233829,111
2014282531,936
2015228834,224
2016256936,793
2017268139,474
2018260442,078
2019278244,860
2020345248,312
2021280551,117
2022356754,684
2023342458,108
2024350361,611
2025303064,641