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
198924121
199026147
199132179
199242221
1993124345
1994253598
1995205803
19962371,040
19973361,376
19983921,768
19995272,295
20006282,923
20016253,548
20026484,196
20038625,058
200412736,331
200512737,604
200614459,049
2007158610,635
2008151612,151
2009150913,660
2010145815,118
2011125716,375
2012139017,765
2013142419,189
2014168820,877
2015151122,388
2016166924,057
2017176825,825
2018180227,627
2019186229,489
2020228331,772
2021185133,623
2022228935,912
2023220538,117
2024232740,444
2025168242,126