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
198935156
199035191
199140231
199253284
1993166450
1994343793
19952841,077
19963151,392
19974711,863
19985662,429
19997443,173
20008564,029
20018824,911
20029305,841
200313417,182
200418729,054
2005210111,155
2006234313,498
2007255316,051
2008237718,428
2009243320,861
2010242923,290
2011219125,481
2012232827,809
2013245230,261
2014282933,090
2015249935,589
2016272738,316
2017286441,180
2018283744,017
2019307847,095
2020355050,645
2021301553,660
2022386257,522
2023374961,271
2024366664,937
202514265,079