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
19881599
198924123
199026149
199132181
199241222
1993122344
1994254598
1995205803
19962371,040
19973361,376
19983911,767
19995342,301
20006312,932
20016233,555
20026524,207
20038625,069
200412656,334
200512757,609
200614459,054
2007158410,638
2008151212,150
2009151113,661
2010146715,128
2011126416,392
2012138617,778
2013142219,200
2014170420,904
2015151422,418
2016164424,062
2017177025,832
2018178827,620
2019186229,482
2020226831,750
2021184633,596
2022229835,894
202386436,758