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Recently published Nature commentary on "So you want to be a computational biologist?" by Nick Loman & Mick Watson give advice when starting out on computational projects. http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n11/full/nbt.2740.html

Thanks Archana for such a useful links. I found this link useful as well for beginners, where user can find some of the free books.

http://www.perl.org/books/library.html