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This depends on your own interest... I could plug some projects I work on (e.g. geneNetwork2 (https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2 )) but if you're not interested in genetics or don't code in Python this is ofcourse not the right project for you...
Hot take: you don't necessarily need to do your side projects in bioinformatics strictly. There are tons of public APIs you can use to scrape data from. Obtain data and create your own dataviz projects, even for things that aren't traditionally in the bioinfo realm. A lot of the skills you learn will be applicable to biological data, even if "true" bioinfo pipelines involve some domain-specific tools like bioconductor/biopython
Outside of biology, some of these visualization/ML skills can be useful to have on your portfolio. For instance, I once had a project where I scraped Reddit comments to test Godwin's Law and used that to teach myself the basic statistical approaches to K-M survival analysis (shameless plug), which is pretty nifty if your lab ever has to correlate sequencing results against human/mouse survival data.