I'm interested in this. I have biologist friends at the university and we've discussed the possibility of implementing such functionality; I'd like to give it a

I'm interested in this. I have biologist friends at the university and we've discussed the possibility of implementing such functionality; I'd like to give it a try and probably re-discover what you found already. Some kind of report of your experience would be very useful. Do you have some references to that project? Reports, comments, maybe software?