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
198923121
199026147
199132179
199242221
1993124345
1994253598
1995204802
19962371,039
19973371,376
19983901,766
19995282,294
20006312,925
20016243,549
20026494,198
20038625,060
200412736,333
200512757,608
200614459,053
2007158510,638
2008151612,154
2009150813,662
2010145915,121
2011125616,377
2012138817,765
2013142419,189
2014169320,882
2015151122,393
2016166824,061
2017177225,833
2018180627,639
2019186629,505
2020228531,790
2021185133,641
2022228735,928
2023219738,125
2024233440,459
2025107441,533