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
1981735
19821651
1983455
1984964
1985670
1986777
1987784
19881498
198924122
199026148
199132180
199242222
1993125347
1994253600
1995205805
19962371,042
19973361,378
19983911,769
19995282,297
20006302,927
20016243,551
20026494,200
20038635,063
200412736,336
200512737,609
200614469,055
2007158410,639
2008151412,153
2009150813,661
2010146115,122
2011125716,379
2012138817,767
2013142619,193
2014169120,884
2015151122,395
2016166924,064
2017177125,835
2018180227,637
2019186429,501
2020228531,786
2021185133,637
2022228635,923
2023220238,125
2024233240,457
2025151341,970