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
19997453,174
20008544,028
20018824,910
20029305,840
200313397,179
200418739,052
2005210111,153
2006234313,496
2007255316,049
2008237518,424
2009243320,857
2010242823,285
2011219125,476
2012232827,804
2013245230,256
2014283333,089
2015249835,587
2016272938,316
2017286641,182
2018283844,020
2019307947,099
2020364650,745
2021299853,743
2022389457,637
2023374961,386
2024333164,717