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
1981634
19821650
1983454
1984963
1985568
1986775
1987782
19881496
198923119
199026145
199132177
199241218
1993124342
1994251593
1995205798
19962381,036
19973351,371
19983911,762
19995302,292
20006322,924
20016243,548
20026534,201
20038605,061
200412696,330
200512787,608
200614409,048
2007158010,628
2008151312,141
2009151113,652
2010146415,116
2011125816,374
2012138617,760
2013142919,189
2014169820,887
2015151522,402
2016164924,051
2017177225,823
2018178627,609
2019185929,468
2020226431,732
2021183033,562
2022228835,850
2023222938,079
202489138,970