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
19851084
1986892
19879101
198821122
198936158
199036194
199140234
199253287
1993166453
1994343796
19952841,080
19963151,395
19974711,866
19985672,433
19997443,177
20008534,030
20018834,913
20029285,841
200313417,182
200418719,053
2005209711,150
2006234213,492
2007255216,044
2008237918,423
2009243120,854
2010242723,281
2011219225,473
2012233027,803
2013244130,244
2014282733,071
2015249635,567
2016272538,292
2017285741,149
2018283543,984
2019306947,053
2020360150,654
2021303453,688
2022378957,477
2023365161,128