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
19841175
19851186
1986995
198710105
198824129
198941170
199042212
199150262
199260322
1993184506
1994353859
19952741,133
19963371,470
19974621,932
19986042,536
19997233,259
20008354,094
20018854,979
20029615,940
200313377,277
200418359,112
2005203311,145
2006227313,418
2007248915,907
2008232018,227
2009233320,560
2010233822,898
2011210925,007
2012226927,276
2013238129,657
2014292532,582
2015236634,948
2016266937,617
2017279240,409
2018279143,200
2019291946,119
2020354949,668
2021300852,676
2022368256,358
2023358159,939
2024382763,766
2025420967,975
2026248070,455