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
1994342795
19952841,079
19963131,392
19974711,863
19985672,430
19997423,172
20008534,025
20018834,908
20029285,836
200313407,176
200418699,045
2005209511,140
2006234313,483
2007254916,032
2008237418,406
2009243020,836
2010242223,258
2011219025,448
2012232527,773
2013243830,211
2014282633,037
2015249235,529
2016272338,252
2017283641,088
2018282443,912
2019305546,967
2020357750,544
2021297053,514
2022378557,299
2023165058,949