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
20018784,910
20029285,838
200313417,179
200418729,051
2005210311,154
2006234013,494
2007255316,047
2008237518,422
2009243020,852
2010243023,282
2011218525,467
2012233327,800
2013245330,253
2014283333,086
2015250235,588
2016273938,327
2017286641,193
2018286044,053
2019309247,145
2020356050,705
2021311353,818
2022382457,642
2023374161,383
2024380865,191
2025245367,644