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
19974701,862
19985662,428
19997423,170
20008554,025
20018824,907
20029295,836
200313427,178
200418719,049
2005210011,149
2006234213,491
2007255216,043
2008238118,424
2009242920,853
2010242823,281
2011218925,470
2012232527,795
2013244730,242
2014283233,074
2015250035,574
2016272438,298
2017285841,156
2018283443,990
2019307247,062
2020370250,764
2021305953,823
2022378757,610
2023373561,345
2024139562,740