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
198927142
199033175
199141216
199252268
1993145413
1994296709
1995225934
19962641,198
19973831,581
19984612,042
19995582,600
20006323,232
20016803,912
20026954,607
20039675,574
200413856,959
200514558,414
2006159410,008
2007169611,704
2008155913,263
2009147914,742
2010142216,164
2011124817,412
2012135818,770
2013143320,203
2014167621,879
2015138823,267
2016160024,867
2017164226,509
2018163928,148
2019165929,807
2020206831,875
2021163533,510
2022204235,552
2023199037,542
2024202039,562
2025174141,303