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 ==Popularity and Decline of Chime==
-Chime was very popular with biochemists, biochemical educators, and drug companies, as well as with chemists and chemical educators, from its initial availability until the mid-2000's. Over a thousand publically available websites and tutorials utilize Chime in 2008 (see the ''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 publically available websites and tutorials utilize Chime in 2008 (see the ''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.
 ==See Also==