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
1986894
198711105
198823128
198940168
199040208
199149257
199259316
1993180496
1994348844
19952751,119
19963281,447
19974571,904
19985912,495
19997093,204
20008234,027
20018744,901
20029315,832
200313157,147
200418188,965
2005199710,962
2006223313,195
2007245415,649
2008228617,935
2009230220,237
2010229822,535
2011205724,592
2012220826,800
2013234129,141
2014282531,966
2015229234,258
2016256936,827
2017267339,500
2018260342,103
2019279444,897
2020345348,350
2021270851,058
2022359154,649
2023345558,104
2024352261,626
2025398765,613
2026113366,746