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
200419929,744
2005226312,007
2006249814,505
2007275617,261
2008258019,841
2009265622,497
2010265325,150
2011241727,567
2012255930,126
2013275032,876
2014326436,140
2015280038,940
2016305441,994
2017329745,291
2018315948,450
2019348451,934
2020416856,102
2021352459,626
2022443664,062
2023434168,403
2024171670,119