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
19985192,244
19996392,883
20007343,617
20017794,396
20028175,213
200311796,392
200416098,001
200517669,767
2006196811,735
2007213813,873
2008198815,861
2009196117,822
2010194619,768
2011170521,473
2012184423,317
2013193825,255
2014225927,514
2015185229,366
2016213831,504
2017214233,646
2018213335,779
2019226038,039
2020275740,796
2021220943,005
2022285245,857
2023273548,592
2024264451,236
2025311254,348
202645954,807