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
19771124
1978327
1979229
1980332
1981739
19821857
1983865
19841176
19851086
1986995
198710105
198822127
198940167
199040207
199146253
199256309
1993184493
1994375868
19953071,175
19963441,519
19974982,017
19986222,639
19997913,430
20009084,338
20019615,299
200210116,310
200314417,751
200419919,742
2005226312,005
2006249914,504
2007275617,260
2008257819,838
2009265822,496
2010265325,149
2011241827,567
2012256430,131
2013275132,882
2014326236,144
2015279638,940
2016305441,994
2017329845,292
2018315748,449
2019353451,983
2020417656,159
2021352259,681
2022441264,093
2023431868,411
2024145469,865