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
1994342794
19952841,078
19963141,392
19974711,863
19985692,432
19997443,176
20008544,030
20018774,907
20029295,836
200313417,177
200418729,049
2005210111,150
2006234013,490
2007255316,043
2008237718,420
2009243520,855
2010243323,288
2011218625,474
2012233527,809
2013245330,262
2014283133,093
2015250535,598
2016274338,341
2017286641,207
2018285744,064
2019309247,156
2020368350,839
2021303453,873
2022374157,614
2023374561,359
2024370265,061
2025272567,786