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
19881598
198923121
199026147
199132179
199242221
1993124345
1994253598
1995204802
19962371,039
19973371,376
19983911,767
19995282,295
20006312,926
20016233,549
20026494,198
20038615,059
200412746,333
200512767,609
200614459,054
2007158510,639
2008151612,155
2009150813,663
2010146115,124
2011125716,381
2012138817,769
2013142519,194
2014169520,889
2015151122,400
2016166824,068
2017177025,838
2018180527,643
2019186729,510
2020228531,795
2021185233,647
2022228735,934
2023220038,134
2024233140,465
2025124741,712