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
2006222713,177
2007245615,633
2008228517,918
2009230220,220
2010229722,517
2011205224,569
2012220426,773
2013233429,107
2014282331,930
2015229334,223
2016256636,789
2017268139,470
2018260842,078
2019278344,861
2020344348,304
2021279151,095
2022354154,636
2023341958,055
2024353261,587
2025271764,304