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
19963441,519
19974982,017
19986222,639
19997913,430
20009084,338
20019615,299
200210106,309
200314437,752
200419939,745
2005226212,007
2006250114,508
2007275617,264
2008258019,844
2009265522,499
2010265325,152
2011241827,570
2012256230,132
2013275132,883
2014326236,145
2015279838,943
2016305641,999
2017329645,295
2018315948,454
2019325651,710
2020415455,864
2021358459,448
2022447463,922
2023434468,266
2024149169,757