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
19997433,174
20008554,029
20018804,909
20029295,838
200313417,179
200418719,050
2005210111,151
2006234113,492
2007255416,046
2008237718,423
2009243320,856
2010242723,283
2011218525,468
2012233127,799
2013245430,253
2014283233,085
2015250535,590
2016272638,316
2017286341,179
2018283544,014
2019307047,084
2020355650,640
2021303753,677
2022382057,497
2023372961,226
2024370364,929
2025154066,469