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
1994374867
19953071,174
19963421,516
19974972,013
19986242,637
19997943,431
20009084,339
20019595,298
200210136,311
200314427,753
200419929,745
2005226212,007
2006249814,505
2007275717,262
2008258219,844
2009265522,499
2010265525,154
2011241927,573
2012255830,131
2013275132,882
2014327136,153
2015280438,957
2016304842,005
2017329845,303
2018317048,473
2019355552,028
2020422656,254
2021356459,818
2022444364,261
2023436868,629
2024391372,542