MDL Chime
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| Original author(s) | Elsevier |
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| Developer(s) | Symyx Technologies |
| Initial release | 1996 (0.9 Beta) 1997 (1.0 Full release) [1] |
| Stable release | 2.6 SP7
/ July 31, 2007 |
Mozilla Firefox | |
| Website | http://accelrys.com/products/collaborative-science/biovia-discovery-studio/ |
MDL Chime was a free
Plug-in
Chime was used by a wide range of
macromolecules, many of which were linked to the World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources MolVisIndex.Org. Chime was also used until 2006 at the Protein Data Bank
(PDB) to examine structures stored there.
Although available in 1996 in both
Mozilla Firefox). One significant feature added in 1997 was the ability to display spectroscopic data in the form of the IUPAC JCAMP-DX protocols. Apart from this, most subsequent updates were for the installation package to follow the development of Windows and Internet Explorer. Accelrys announced in 2012 that Chime was no longer supported and would remain available for download until the end of 2012.[4] Chime was part of the ISIS product line acquired by Symyx Technologies from scientific publisher Elsevier in October 2007. Now Chime is owned by Dassault Systemes BIOVIA (formerly Accelrys), and has been merged into Discovery Studio
, but no longer exists as a free browser plugin.
Chime largely has been superseded by Jmol,[5] a non-proprietary open-source Java molecular visualization application and JavaScript applet that has maintained most Chime command compatibility while adding numerous features.
See also
References
- ^ "Chime Version History".
- .
- S2CID 32321207.
- ^ CHIME - No Fee, archived from the original on 2012-04-24
- S2CID 36319720