The hardest part is to get invited in the first place.
Most importantly, you have to want to be a computational biologist.
Academic publishing hasn't yet fully adapted to the internet age.
Putting artificial limits on output is never a good idea.
I'm not ready to give up pre-publication review.
No thesis proposal has ever been critizied for lack of ambition.
But you should publish nonetheless.
Clear structure helps both the reader and the writer.
Avoid manual data manipulation, and record all intermediate results.
There are reasons why some presentations put you to sleep and others don't.