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
19761212
1977820
1978323
1979225
1980328
1981735
19821651
1983859
19841170
19851080
1986888
1987997
198820117
198928145
199034179
199136215
199251266
1993145411
1994292703
1995236939
19962651,204
19973871,591
19984702,061
19995662,627
20006673,294
20016913,985
20027224,707
200310075,714
200413967,110
200514998,609
2006167710,286
2007176112,047
2008159613,643
2009153315,176
2010147416,650
2011128317,933
2012145219,385
2013150020,885
2014184422,729
2015147224,201
2016171225,913
2017175227,665
2018178829,453
2019176431,217
2020221833,435
2021178635,221
2022225337,474
2023223839,712
2024232742,039
2025254744,586
2026145946,045