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
1986995
198711106
198823129
198940169
199040209
199150259
199261320
1993182502
1994346848
19952731,121
19963291,450
19974581,908
19985912,499
19997083,207
20008134,020
20018704,890
20029295,819
200313177,136
200418198,955
2005199510,950
2006222613,176
2007245415,630
2008228617,916
2009230020,216
2010229422,510
2011205424,564
2012220326,767
2013233329,100
2014282631,926
2015229334,219
2016256836,787
2017267739,464
2018260642,070
2019278644,856
2020344648,302
2021279951,101
2022355654,657
2023339958,056
2024348161,537
2025262964,166