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Chime is a plugin used by web browsers to display 3D structures. Chime can be used at the Protein Data Bank http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/index.html to examine structures stored there, and on a variety of biochemistry web sites for the visualization of macromolecules. 3-D or 3D abbreviates three dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ... The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for 3-D structural data of proteins and nucleic acids. ... Biochemistry is the chemistry of life. ... A macromolecule is a molecule composed of a very large number of atoms. ...

CHIME is an acronym for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which is a professional organization formed with the dual objective of serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs, and advocating the more effective use of information management within healthcare.

To Chime is a term used among Macintosh user circles, somewhat analogous to the POST on an PC. Refering to the Macintosh Boot Chime, it refers to the presence or lack of it refering to how damaged a non-booting computer is. The box for Mac OS X v10. ... For the postal system, see mail For Usenet, see newsgroup For World Wide Web, see discussion groups In computing, Power-On Self Test, see booting For the cereal maker, see Post Cereals For the twentieth century mathematician, see Emil Leon Post Post is also a location on a basketball court...

The chime hoop is the iron hoop nearest the top of an oak barrel. The bilge hoops are the hoops nearest the "bulge", or center.

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MDL Chime site
CHIME web site

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Chime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (221 words)
	Chime can be used at the Protein Data Bank http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/index.html to examine structures stored there, and on a variety of biochemistry web sites for the visualization of macromolecules.
	CHIME is an acronym for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which is a professional organization formed with the dual objective of serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs, and advocating the more effective use of information management within healthcare.
	To Chime is a term used among Macintosh user circles, somewhat analogous to the POST on an PC.

CHIME (2986 words)
	Accordingly, each CHIME cell is assigned a dimensional volume by its parent, and is in turn responsible for allocating a region of this volume to each of its sub-cells.
	CHIME facilitates the automatic relookup/resend of messages that missed their target, generally due to excessive mobility on the part of said target.
	The CHIME browser functions by (1) periodically calling the Render() method of its owned models, so they may render themselves onto the output devices available at the host, and (2) to accept events from local input devices for relay to the browser's internal Reasoning module, where suitable repositioning and relocation actions are triggered.

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