Chime was used by a wide range of
biochemistry web sites for the visualization 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
Windows 95 and
classic Mac OS versions for both
Netscape and
Internet Explorer browsers, development of Chime did not follow the move to
Mac OS X for the Mac and support for Windows-based browsers other than Internet Explorer was limited (although it works well in
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. 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 Systèmes 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 Chime largely has been superseded by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, 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==