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
19963141,393
19974711,864
19985672,431
19997433,174
20008554,029
20018814,910
20029295,839
200313417,180
200418719,051
2005210211,153
2006234113,494
2007255416,048
2008237718,425
2009243320,858
2010242723,285
2011218525,470
2012233127,801
2013245430,255
2014283133,086
2015250535,591
2016272638,317
2017286441,181
2018283644,017
2019307147,088
2020356950,657
2021303053,687
2022380557,492
2023372661,218
2024371664,934
2025154566,479