Chime-Plugin
Chemscape Chime is a Netscape Navigator plug-in that allows scientists to view chemical
information directly on a Netscape Navigator HTML page. Chime supports most of the
popular structure display formats that scientists use including MDL Information Systems, Inc.
Molfile and many of the popular 3D display formats such as the Brookhaven Protein Databank
(PDB) format (3D rendering code courtesy of Roger Sayle.)
Chime
- Displays structures directly within an HTML page, rather than through a helper
application in a separate window.
- Supports MDL Molfile, Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB), Minnesota
Supercomputer Center's (MSC) XMol XYZ, Gaussian Input, IEMBL Nucleotide Format, RasMol Script File, Mopac Input File, and Chemical Structure Markup Language File.
- Structures within the plug-in are "live"; they can be rotated within the plug-in in real
time.
- Displays 3D structures in any of the following formats: wireframe, backbone, sticks,
spacefill, ball and stick, ribbons, strands, and cartoons. (3D rendering code is based on
Roger Sayle's popular RasMol rendering program.)
A prototype of Chime for Macintosh (PowerPC and 68k) and Windows (95, 3.1, and NT) can be
downloaded immediately from MDL's Web site (http://www.mdli.com). An SGI IRIX version
will be available in the near future. Chime requires Netscape Navigator 2.0 or greater.
Examples