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
19761313
1977922
1978325
1979227
1980431
1981839
19821655
1983964
19841074
19851084
1986892
19879101
198820121
198934155
199035190
199147237
199252289
1993160449
1994318767
19952481,015
19962951,310
19974141,724
19985192,243
19996382,881
20007353,616
20017794,395
20028175,212
200311796,391
200416067,997
200517659,762
2006196811,730
2007213813,868
2008198815,856
2009195717,813
2010194319,756
2011170521,461
2012184523,306
2013193525,241
2014225927,500
2015185529,355
2016213731,492
2017214433,636
2018214035,776
2019226038,036
2020275740,793
2021220943,002
2022285045,852
2023273548,587
2024272751,314
2025308454,398
202634654,744