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
1980328
1981735
19821449
1983756
19841167
19851077
1986885
1987893
198818111
198928139
199033172
199142214
199252266
1993142408
1994296704
1995222926
19962651,191
19973801,571
19984622,033
19995602,593
20006363,229
20016803,909
20026904,599
20039705,569
200413806,949
200514598,408
2006159510,003
2007169311,696
2008155713,253
2009148214,735
2010142116,156
2011125117,407
2012135018,757
2013144320,200
2014167121,871
2015139123,262
2016159524,857
2017163526,492
2018162928,121
2019166729,788
2020206331,851
2021163633,487
2022204535,532
2023199937,531
2024202639,557
2025224141,798
202633942,137