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
1993180498
1994347845
19952751,120
19963291,449
19974581,907
19985912,498
19997073,205
20008154,020
20018704,890
20029295,819
200313177,136
200418188,954
2005199610,950
2006222913,179
2007245315,632
2008228517,917
2009230320,220
2010229522,515
2011205524,570
2012220226,772
2013233629,108
2014282531,933
2015229034,223
2016256436,787
2017268039,467
2018260742,074
2019278444,858
2020344548,303
2021272851,031
2022356354,594
2023346758,061
2024343061,491
2025293764,428