I573 PROGRAMMING FOR CHEMICAL AND LIFE SCIENCE INFORMATICS (formerly I590) is a 3CH graduate course aimed at giving students knowledge of the programming, algorithmic and software techniques used in the chemical and life science informatics disciplines. Topics covered will include use of chemistry toolkits; programming environments; issues in software design for scientists; developing web-based applications; web services and service-oriented architectures; statistical programming; high performance computing. It is taught by David Wild with assistance from Rajarshi Guha, and as well as being delivered to classroom students in Bloomington and Indianapolis, will be offered as a Distance Education course to any graduate in the US through teleconference and web conferencing services.