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
19963431,518
19974982,016
19986232,639
19997913,430
20009084,338
20019605,298
200210126,310
200314427,752
200419939,745
2005226212,007
2006250014,507
2007275717,264
2008258119,845
2009265822,503
2010265525,158
2011241427,572
2012255830,130
2013274932,879
2014326036,139
2015280338,942
2016305441,996
2017329545,291
2018316548,456
2019360652,062
2020406656,128
2021351359,641
2022440664,047
2023438668,433
2024222770,660