1.     Lai Y^#*, Liu R^#, Wang L^#, Ma XK^#, Li Y, Yang G, Shi L, Guo YL, Wei Z, Zhou X, Xu W, Hou Y, Miccio A, Yang B, Mou X*, Yang L*, Chen J*. Clinical application of base editing for treating β-thalassaemia. Nature, 2026, doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10342-9. Online ahead of print.

2.     Zhang PH^#, Feng H^#, Ma XK, Nan F*, Yang L*. PASSpedia: A Polyadenylation Site Database Across Different Species at Single Cell Resolution. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. 2025 Sep 23:qzaf089. doi: 10.1093/gpbjnl/qzaf089. Epub ahead of print

3.     Huang Y^#, Chen YQ^#, Lou SY^#, Gao X^#, Liu YX, Zhang YL, Nan F, Chen LL* and Yang L*. IRES–cargo interplay structurally modulates circular RNA translation. Cell Res, 2026, in press

4.     Li G^#, Chen G^#, Yuan GH^#, Wei J^#, Ni Q, Wu J, Yang B, Yang L* and Chen J*. Specific and efficient RNA A-to-I editing through cleavage of an ADAR inhibitor. Nat Biotechnol, 2026, 44: 303-315

5.     Zhai SN, Zhang YY, Chen MH, Fu ZC, Chen LL, Ma XK*, Yang L*. CIRCpedia v3: an interactive database for circular RNA characterization and functional exploration. Nucleic Acids Res. 2026, 54: D78-D88

6.     Cao M^#, Yuan GH^#, Cao SM^#, Liu YX, Liu CX, Xu YF, Wei J, Guo YL, Chen LL, Yang L*. Direct circMAN1A2(2,3,4,5)-CENPB mRNA interaction regulates cell proliferation and cancer progression. Nat Commun, 2025, 16: 8609

7.     Tao X^#, Zhai SN^#, Liu CX^#, Huang Y, Wei J, Guo YL, Liu XQ, Li X, Yang L* and Chen LL*. Degradation of circular RNA by the ribonuclease DIS3. Mol Cell, 2025, 85: 1674–1685

8.     Yuan GH^#, Li J^#, Yang Z^#, Chen YQ^#, Yuan Z, Chen T, Ouyang W, Dong N* and Yang L*. Deep generative model for protein subcellular localization prediction. Brief Bioinform, 2025, 26: bbaf152 

9.     Fu ZC^#, Gao BQ^#, Nan F, Ma XK, Yang L*. DEMINING: A deep learning model embedded framework to distinguish RNA editing from DNA mutations in RNA sequencing data. Genome Biol, 2024, 25: 258

10.  Yuan GH^#, Wang Y^#, Wang GZ and Yang L*. RNAlight: a machine learning model to identify nucleotide features determining RNA subcellular localization. Brief Bioinform, 2023, 24: bbac509

11.  Gao X^#, Ma XK^#, Li X, Li GW, Liu CX, Zhang J, Wang Y, Wei J, Chen J, Chen LL, Yang L*. Knockout of circRNAs by base editing back-splice sites of circularized exons. Genome Biol, 2022, 23:16

12.  Wang L^#, Xue W^#, Zhang H^#, Gao R^#, Qiu H^#, Wei J, Zhou L, Lei YN, Wu X, Li X, Liu C, Wu J, Chen Q, Ma H, Huang X, Cai C, Zhang Y, Yang B*, Yin H*, YangL*, Chen J*. Eliminating genome-wide and transcriptome-wide off-target mutations by base editor. Nat Cell Biol, 2021, 23: 552-563

13.  Li GW^#, Nan F^#, Yuan GH, Liu CX, Liu X, Chen LL, Tian B, Yang L*. SCAPTURE: a deep learning-embedded pipeline that captures polyadenylation information from 3' tag-based RNA-seq of single cells. Genome Biol, 2021, 22: 221

14.  Li SQ^#, Li X^#, Xue W^#, Zhang L^#, Cao SM, Lei YN, Yang LZ, Guo SK, Zhang JL, Gao X, Wei J, Li J*, Yang L*, and Chen LL*. Screening for functional circular RNAs using the CRISPR-Cas13 system. Nat Methods, 2021, 18: 51–59

15.  Liu CX^#, Li X^#, Nan F^#, Jiang S, Gao X, Guo SK, Xue W, Cui Y, Dong K, Ding H, Qu B, Shen N*, Yang L* and Chen LL*. Structure and degradation of circular RNAs regulate PKR activation in innate immunity. Cell,2019, 177: 865-880 (Featured Article)

16.  WangX^#, Li J^#, Wang Y^#, Yang B^#, Wei J^#, Wu J, Wang R, Huang X*, Chen J* andYang L*. Efficient base editing in methylated regions with a human APOBEC3A-Cas9 fusion. Nat Biotechnol, 2018, 36: 946-949

17.  Xiang JF^#, Yang Q^#, Liu CX^#, Wu M, Chen LL* and Yang L*. N⁶-methyladenosines modulate A-to-I RNA editing. Mol Cell, 2018, 69: 126-135

18.  Zhang XO^#, Dong R^#, Zhang Y^#, Zhang JL, Luo Z, Zhang J, Chen LL* and Yang L*. Diverse alternative back-splicing and alternative splicing landscape of circular RNAs. Genome Res, 2016, 26: 1277-1287

19.  Zhang XO^#, Wang HB^#, Zhang Y, Lu X, Chen LL* and Yang L*. Complementary sequence-mediated exon circularization.Cell, 2014,159: 134-147

20.  Zhang Y^#, Zhang XO^#, Chen T, Xiang JF, Yin QF, Xing YH, Zhu S, Yang L* and Chen LL*. Circular intronic long noncoding RNAs. Mol Cell, 2013, 51: 792-806 (Issue Highlight)