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
198940167
199040207
199146253
199256309
1993184493
1994373866
19953071,173
19963421,515
19974962,011
19986242,635
19997933,428
20009104,338
20019595,297
200210126,309
200314427,751
200419969,747
2005226312,010
2006249914,509
2007275617,265
2008258119,846
2009265422,500
2010265325,153
2011241527,568
2012256030,128
2013274532,873
2014327136,144
2015280238,946
2016305742,003
2017329345,296
2018318248,478
2019342451,902
2020423656,138
2021359659,734
2022443764,171
2023437968,550
2024441072,960
2025232975,289