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
19985682,432
19997443,176
20008544,030
20018794,909
20029275,836
200313417,177
200418719,048
2005210211,150
2006234113,491
2007255416,045
2008237518,420
2009243320,853
2010242823,281
2011218725,468
2012233127,799
2013245430,253
2014283333,086
2015250635,592
2016274238,334
2017286541,199
2018286044,059
2019308447,143
2020367650,819
2021306553,884
2022387357,757
2023372361,480
2024372565,205
2025234867,553