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
19761212
19771123
1978326
1979228
1980331
1981738
19821856
1983763
19841174
1985983
1986891
19879100
198821121
198936157
199036193
199140233
199253286
1993166452
1994343795
19952841,079
19963151,394
19974711,865
19985692,434
19997443,178
20008544,032
20018774,909
20029295,838
200313407,178
200418719,049
2005210111,150
2006233813,488
2007255316,041
2008237618,417
2009243620,853
2010243123,284
2011218825,472
2012233327,805
2013245230,257
2014283533,092
2015250735,599
2016274438,343
2017286941,212
2018286044,072
2019309447,166
2020360950,775
2021307653,851
2022381357,664
2023378261,446
2024380165,247
2025264267,889