1.    Aritra Bhattacherjee*, Chao Zhang*, Brianna Watson, Mohamed Nadhir Djekidel, Jeffrey R Moffitt, and Yi Zhang. 2023. 'Understanding prefrontal cortex functions by decoding its molecular, cellular and circuit organization', Nature Neuroscience, 26, 1880–1893.

2.    Chao Zhang*, Renchao Chen*, and Yi Zhang. 2022. 'Accurate inference of genome-wide spatial expression with iSpatial', Science Advances, 8: eabq0990.

3.    Bo He*, Chao Zhang*, Xiaoxue Zhang*, Yu Fan, Hu Zeng, Jun’e Liu, Haowei Meng, Dongsheng Bai, Jinying Peng, Qian Zhang, Wei tao, and Chengqi Yi. 2021. 'Tissue-specific 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape of the human genome', Nature Communications, 12: 1-12.

4.    Chao Zhang*, Xuebin Zhang*, Li Huang, Yiting Guan, Xiaoke Huang, Xiao‐Li Tian, Lijun Zhang, and Wei Tao. 2021. 'ATF3 drives senescence by reconstructing accessible chromatin profiles', Aging Cell, 20: e13315.

5.    Chao Zhang*, Zihan Xu*, Shangda Yang*, Guohuan Sun*, Lumeng Jia, Zhaofeng Zheng, Quan Gu, Wei Tao, Tao Cheng, Cheng Li, and Hui Cheng. 2020. 'tagHi-C reveals 3D chromatin architecture dynamics during mouse hematopoiesis', Cell Reports, 32: 108206.

6.    Yiting Guan*, Chao Zhang*, Guoliang Lyu, Xiaoke Huang, Xuebin Zhang, Tenghan Zhuang, Lumeng Jia, Lijun Zhang, Chen Zhang, and Cheng Li. 2020. 'Senescence-activated enhancer landscape orchestrates the senescence-associated secretory phenotype in murine fibroblasts', Nucleic acids research, 48: 10909-23.

7.    Jianting Zhou*, Chao Zhang*, Ran Wei*, Mingzhe Han, Songduo Wang, Kaiguang Yang, Lihua Zhang, Weigang Chen, Mingzhang Wen, and Cheng Li. 2022. 'Exogenous artificial DNA forms chromatin structure with active transcription in yeast', Science China Life Sciences, 65: 851-60.

8.    Guoliang Lyu*, Chao Zhang*, Te Ling*, Rui Liu, Le Zong, Yiting Guan, Xiaoke Huang, Lei Sun, Lijun Zhang, Cheng Li, Yu Nie, and Wei Tao. 2018. 'Genome and epigenome analysis of monozygotic twins discordant for congenital heart disease', BMC genomics, 19: 1-13.

9.    Yiqiong Liu, Ying Wang, Zheng-dong Zhao, Guoguang Xie, Chao Zhang, Renchao Chen, and Yi Zhang. 2024. 'A subset of dopamine receptor-expressing neurons in the nucleus accumbens controls feeding and energy homeostasis', Nature Metabolism

10.  Guoliang Lyu, Yiting Guan, Chao Zhang, Le Zong, Lei Sun, Xiaoke Huang, Li Huang, Lijun Zhang, Xiao-Li Tian, Zhongjun Zhou, and Wei Tao. 2018. 'TGF-β signaling alters H4K20me3 status via miR-29 and contributes to cellular senescence and cardiac aging', Nature Communications, 9: 1-13.

11.  Xiaoke Huang, Xuebin Zhang, Le Zong, Qianqian Gao, Chao Zhang, Ran Wei, Yiting Guan, Li Huang, Lijun Zhang, and Guoliang Lyu. 2021. 'Gene body methylation safeguards ribosomal DNA transcription by preventing PHF6-mediated enrichment of repressive histone mark H4K20me3', Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297.

12.  Guoliang Lyu, Le Zong, Chao Zhang, Xiaoke Huang, Wenbing Xie, Junnan Fang, Yiting Guan, Lijun Zhang, Ting Ni, and Jun Gu. 2019. 'Metastasis-related methyltransferase 1 (Merm1) represses the methyltransferase activity of Dnmt3a and facilitates RNA polymerase I transcriptional elongation', Journal of molecular cell biology, 11: 78-90.

13.  Wenzong Ma, Chenyang Gu, Lin Ma, Caoqi Fan, Chao Zhang, Yujie Sun, Cheng Li, and Gen Yang. 2020. 'Mixed secondary chromatin structure revealed by modeling radiation-induced DNA fragment length distribution', Science China Life Sciences, 63: 825-34.

14.   Linna Peng, Sijin Cheng, Yuan Lin, Qionghua Cui, Yingying Luo, Jiahui Chu, Mingming Shao, Wenyi Fan, Yamei Chen, Ai Lin, Yiyi Xi, Yanxia Sun, Lei Zhang, Chao Zhang, Wen Tan, Ge Gao, Chen Wu, and Dongxin Lin. 2018. 'CCGD-ESCC: a comprehensive database for genetic variants associated with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Chinese population', Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 16: 262-68.

15.  Qionghua Cui, Linna Peng, Lixuan Wei, Jiang Chang, Wenle Tan, Yingying Luo, Xudong Huang, Yanjie Zhao, Jun Li, Jiahui Chu, Mingming Shao, Chao Zhang, Cheng Li, Wen Tan, Dongxin Lin, and Chen Wu. 2018. 'Genetic variant repressing ADH1A expression confers susceptibility to esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma', Cancer Letters, 421: 43-50.

16.  Weixu Wang, Xiaolan Zhou, Jun Yao, Haimei Wen, Yi Wang, Mingwan Sun, Chao Zhang, Wei Tao, Jiahua Zou, and Ting Ni. 2022. 'Accurate estimation of cell-type resolution transcriptome in bulk tissue through matrix completion', Briefings in Bioinformatics, 24(5), bbad273.