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
1994319767
19952511,018
19962951,313
19974141,727
19985192,246
19996372,883
20007373,620
20017774,397
20028175,214
200311776,391
200416098,000
200517659,765
2006196811,733
2007213413,867
2008199015,857
2009196217,819
2010194619,765
2011170421,469
2012184723,316
2013193925,255
2014225727,512
2015185229,364
2016213631,500
2017214433,644
2018213935,783
2019226138,044
2020275840,802
2021220743,009
2022284545,854
2023273548,589
2024281351,402
2025310654,508
202692055,428