PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 50%

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
19761212
19771123
1978326
1979228
1980331
1981738
19821856
1983763
19841174
1985983
1986891
19879100
198821121
198935156
199035191
199140231
199253284
1993166450
1994343793
19952841,077
19963151,392
19974701,862
19985662,428
19997423,170
20008554,025
20018824,907
20029295,836
200313417,177
200418729,049
2005209911,148
2006234113,489
2007255116,040
2008238218,422
2009243020,852
2010242923,281
2011218825,469
2012232827,797
2013244530,242
2014283233,074
2015250435,578
2016272638,304
2017286141,165
2018283544,000
2019307147,071
2020355950,630
2021300853,638
2022386957,507
2023373761,244
2024128762,531