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
198923120
199026146
199132178
199241219
1993124343
1994251594
1995205799
19962381,037
19973371,374
19983911,765
19995282,293
20006312,924
20016243,548
20026524,200
20038625,062
200412736,335
200512767,611
200614419,052
2007158010,632
2008151312,145
2009151213,657
2010146315,120
2011125916,379
2012138917,768
2013142719,195
2014169920,894
2015151122,405
2016164824,053
2017177225,825
2018178427,609
2019185829,467
2020226531,732
2021183133,563
2022229335,856
2023221938,075
2024107139,146