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==Popularity and Decline of Chime== | ==Popularity and Decline of Chime== | ||
Chime was very popular with biochemists, biochemical educators, and drug companies, as well as with chemists and chemical educators. Over a thousand publicly available websites and tutorials utilized Chime in 2008 (as was documented in the now defunct ''World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources'' at [http://molvisindex.org MolVisIndex.Org]). After a decade of being the best of its class, Chime's popularity waned due to lack of continued development by MDL, the absence of a version for Apple Mac OS X, and MDL's refusal to open its source code to the community of Chime users. By about 2005, [[Jmol]] had emerged as a superior, free, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software open-source] replacement. | Chime was very popular with biochemists, biochemical educators, and drug companies, as well as with chemists and chemical educators. Over a thousand publicly available websites and tutorials utilized Chime in 2008 (as was documented in the now defunct ''World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources'' at [http://molvisindex.org MolVisIndex.Org]). After a decade of being the best of its class, Chime's popularity waned due to lack of continued development by MDL, the absence of a version for Apple Mac OS X, and MDL's refusal to open its source code to the community of Chime users. By about 2005, [[Jmol]] had emerged as a superior, free, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software open-source] replacement. | ||
==Screen Capture of Chime in Action== | |||
A tutorial on hemoglobin written using [[RasMol]] in 1996 was subsequently ported to Chime, then the unsigned [[Jmol]] Java applet, and then to [[JSmol]]. Screen captures of the earlier versions are available: | |||
*Hemoglobin tutorial in RasMol, 1996 (screen capture video). | |||
*Hemoglobin tutorial in Chime, 1997 (screen capture video). | |||
*Hemoglobin tutorial in unsigned Jmol Java applet, 2007 (screen capture video). | |||
*Hemoglobin tutorial [http://hemoglobin.molviz.org in JSmol, 2018] (live tutorial). | |||
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There is also a [http://hemoglobin.molviz.org/versions.htm detailed history of this tutorial]. | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
