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
19761313
1977922
1978325
1979227
1980431
1981839
19821655
1983964
19841074
19851084
1986892
19879101
198820121
198934155
199035190
199147237
199252289
1993160449
1994318767
19952491,016
19962951,311
19974141,725
19985202,245
19996392,884
20007363,620
20017774,397
20028165,213
200311796,392
200416098,001
200517659,766
2006196911,735
2007213913,874
2008198915,863
2009196217,825
2010194419,769
2011170321,472
2012184323,315
2013193725,252
2014225927,511
2015185229,363
2016213731,500
2017214633,646
2018213635,782
2019226138,043
2020276240,805
2021220943,014
2022284845,862
2023273348,595
2024276051,355
2025309954,454
202650054,954