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
1994373866
19953071,173
19963411,514
19974962,010
19986242,634
19997933,427
20009114,338
20019595,297
200210126,309
200314427,751
200419959,746
2005226412,010
2006250014,510
2007275517,265
2008258319,848
2009265222,500
2010265525,155
2011241627,571
2012255730,128
2013274832,876
2014327036,146
2015280338,949
2016306142,010
2017329045,300
2018318348,483
2019339151,874
2020419856,072
2021356959,641
2022437964,020
2023432268,342
2024435372,695
2025202774,722