in reply to Help from the very start.

other than the perl resource mentioned by others, here are some realted to bioinformatics, the number one resource is Bioperl rest are:

Jason Stajich's Bioperl tutorial

Beginner’s HOWTO by Brian Osborne & James Thompson

bptutorial

Pasteur Institute Bioperl tutorial

WIBR Bioinformatics and Research Computing

  • few artices from perl.com by James D. Tisdall

    Beginning Bioinformatics

    Parsing Protein Domains with Perl

    A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 1

    A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 2

  • Oreilly books on Bio

    Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics

    Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics

    I would have pointed you out to this page from perlchina.org, where i got the info from. but that webpage is in chinese :)