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
19771122
1978325
1979126
1980228
1981634
19821650
1983454
1984963
1985568
1986775
1987782
19881496
198923119
199026145
199132177
199241218
1993124342
1994251593
1995205798
19962381,036
19973351,371
19983911,762
19995302,292
20006322,924
20016243,548
20026534,201
20038605,061
200412706,331
200512777,608
200614399,047
2007158110,628
2008151412,142
2009151113,653
2010146415,117
2011126016,377
2012138717,764
2013142919,193
2014169920,892
2015151222,404
2016164924,053
2017176825,821
2018178227,603
2019186029,463
2020226131,724
2021183333,557
2022229235,849
2023222938,078
202481938,897