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
1977920
1978323
1979225
1980429
1981736
19821450
1983757
19841168
19851179
1986887
1987895
198820115
198928143
199033176
199141217
199253270
1993144414
1994295709
1995225934
19962641,198
19973821,580
19984612,041
19995592,600
20006323,232
20016813,913
20026944,607
20039685,575
200413856,960
200514538,413
2006159710,010
2007169511,705
2008155813,263
2009147914,742
2010142016,162
2011125317,415
2012136118,776
2013143420,210
2014167821,888
2015138823,276
2016159824,874
2017163426,508
2018164228,150
2019165829,808
2020206231,870
2021164033,510
2022203935,549
2023199137,540
2024201839,558
2025152641,084