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
199146236
199252288
1993160448
1994318766
19952501,016
19962951,311
19974141,725
19985202,245
19996372,882
20007373,619
20017784,397
20028175,214
200311786,392
200416098,001
200517649,765
2006196911,734
2007213613,870
2008198915,859
2009196417,823
2010194519,768
2011170421,472
2012184523,317
2013194025,257
2014225827,515
2015185129,366
2016213531,501
2017214633,647
2018213935,786
2019226038,046
2020276240,808
2021221243,020
2022284945,869
2023273748,606
2024278551,391
2025309154,482
202663555,117