Data mining，machine learning, bioinformatics，information theory, and RNA-seq data analysis.

[1] Chaowang Lan, Hui Peng, Gyorgy Hutvagner, and Jinyan Li. “Construction of Competing Endogenous RNA Networks from Paired RNA-seq Data Sets by Pointwise Mutual Information”Accepted by BMC Genomics.

[2] Chaowang Lan, Hui Peng, Eileen M. McGowan, Gyorgy Hutvagner, and Jinyan Li. An isomiR expression panel based novel breast cancer classification approach using improved mutual information. BMC medical genomics 11, no. 6 (2018)

[3] Qingfeng Chen, Chaowang Lan, Liang Zhao, Jianxin Wang, Baoshan Chen, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Recent advances in sequence assembly: principles and applications, Briefings in Functional Genomics, 16(6): 361–378(2017)

[4]Qingfeng Chen, Chaowang Lan, Baoshan Chen, Lusheng Wang, Jinyan Li, Chengqi Zhang: Exploring Consensus RNA Substructural Patterns Using Subgraph Mining. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 14(5): 1134-1146 (2017)

[5] Chaowang Lan, Qingfeng Chen, Jinyan Li: Grouping miRNAs of similar functions via weighted information content of gene ontology.BMC Bioinformatics 17(S-19): 159-170 (2016).