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
198939166
199040206
199146252
199256308
1993184492
1994373865
19953071,172
19963421,514
19974962,010
19986242,634
19997933,427
20009114,338
20019595,297
200210136,310
200314417,751
200419969,747
2005226212,009
2006249814,507
2007275517,262
2008258019,842
2009265422,496
2010265825,154
2011241427,568
2012255630,124
2013274632,870
2014326536,135
2015280138,936
2016306141,997
2017329645,293
2018317848,471
2019335951,830
2020412355,953
2021359659,549
2022437463,923
2023428868,211
2024442372,634
2025281975,453