PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 95%

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
19771023
1978326
1979632
1980436
19811046
19821864
19831175
19841186
19851298
19869107
198711118
198825143
198946189
199052241
199157298
199266364
1993232596
19944621,058
19953451,403
19964061,809
19975632,372
19987573,129
19998954,024
200010035,027
200110466,073
200211097,182
200315568,738
2004211710,855
2005233913,194
2006264115,835
2007296418,799
2008275621,555
2009281724,372
2010287227,244
2011263329,877
2012289032,767
2013309035,857
2014380339,660
2015313942,799
2016372446,523
2017403150,554
2018375754,311
2019406858,379
2020501463,393
2021448067,873
2022546473,337
2023520578,542
2024545884,000
2025493088,930