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
1985670
1986777
1987784
19881498
198924122
199026148
199132180
199242222
1993124346
1994253599
1995204803
19962371,040
19973371,377
19983911,768
19995282,296
20006302,926
20016243,550
20026494,199
20038625,061
200412736,334
200512747,608
200614469,054
2007158510,639
2008151612,155
2009150713,662
2010146015,122
2011125816,380
2012138917,769
2013142419,193
2014168920,882
2015151122,393
2016167024,063
2017177325,836
2018180427,640
2019186329,503
2020228431,787
2021185433,641
2022228635,927
2023220238,129
2024233240,461
2025144041,901