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
19974721,866
19985682,434
19997453,179
20008564,035
20018814,916
20029295,845
200313407,185
200418749,059
2005210211,161
2006234213,503
2007255316,056
2008237618,432
2009243420,866
2010242923,295
2011219425,489
2012233227,821
2013245330,274
2014283233,106
2015250435,610
2016272638,336
2017287541,211
2018284144,052
2019307547,127
2020369150,818
2021300953,827
2022381357,640
2023374761,387
2024365465,041
2025108166,122