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
1981738
19821856
1983965
19841075
19851085
1986893
198710103
198819122
198933155
199038193
199145238
199253291
1993166457
1994328785
19952551,040
19963031,343
19974151,758
19985382,296
19996402,936
20007413,677
20017884,465
20028275,292
200311986,490
200416388,128
200518039,931
2006201411,945
2007221414,159
2008203816,197
2009199218,189
2010197120,160
2011171821,878
2012189223,770
2013199025,760
2014234728,107
2015191630,023
2016223632,259
2017226634,525
2018231936,844
2019239439,238
2020289842,136
2021236344,499
2022297847,477
2023291850,395
2024300653,401
2025331156,712
2026188758,599