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
19985672,433
19997443,177
20008564,033
20018824,915
20029305,845
200313397,184
200418739,057
2005210211,159
2006234313,502
2007255416,056
2008237718,433
2009243320,866
2010242923,295
2011219425,489
2012233127,820
2013245230,272
2014283333,105
2015250135,606
2016272238,328
2017286941,197
2018284344,040
2019307947,119
2020373250,851
2021304853,899
2022380157,700
2023379761,497
2024369865,195
202546365,658