R help - Mar 2005 - Questions on the typical algorithms or solution in most scientific computation area

Hi,
	I am a compiler guy and not familiar with the most scientific
computation. We are doing research work on R language for multi core
processor. Would you like give me any suggestion on the typical
algorithms or solutions in most scientific computation area? 
	Such as: What are the most popular algorithms in statistical and
graphical methods for the analysis of genomic data?

Thanks!

Cheng, Buqi