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
19963141,393
19974711,864
19985672,431
19997443,175
20008544,029
20018804,909
20029295,838
200313407,178
200418709,048
2005210311,151
2006234113,492
2007255016,042
2008237418,416
2009243420,850
2010242923,279
2011218625,465
2012233127,796
2013245330,249
2014283433,083
2015250435,587
2016274138,328
2017286641,194
2018286244,056
2019308347,139
2020367150,810
2021302853,838
2022383657,674
2023373861,412
2024376365,175
2025177566,950