Past work:

Genetic Disease Prediction (sponsored by GSoC) http://code.google.com/soc/2008/siai/appinfo.html?csaid=E0A382E700C0B278

Distributed computing http://sc07.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=11143

Bioinformatics http://igs.wesleyan.edu/projects.htm#rice-weir