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
19974721,866
19985682,434
19997453,179
20008564,035
20018814,916
20029295,845
200313397,184
200418729,056
2005210311,159
2006234113,500
2007255216,052
2008237718,429
2009243320,862
2010242823,290
2011219225,482
2012233227,814
2013245330,267
2014283733,104
2015250835,612
2016272538,337
2017287241,209
2018284444,053
2019307847,131
2020367950,810
2021303753,847
2022383257,679
2023374361,422
2024366265,084
202597066,054