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
20008544,024
20018824,906
20029295,835
200313417,176
200418709,046
2005209911,145
2006234113,486
2007255016,036
2008238218,418
2009243120,849
2010242823,277
2011218625,463
2012233027,793
2013244530,238
2014282733,065
2015250035,565
2016272538,290
2017285941,149
2018283543,984
2019307447,058
2020365150,709
2021306653,775
2022384657,621
2023371561,336
2024115962,495