科研成果：

在国际上创建了基于ITS2的中草药DNA条形码鉴定方法体系，完成专著《中国药典中药材DNA条形码标准序列》，从基因层面解决中草药物种真伪鉴定的难题，被评为2016中国十大医学进展；通过全基因组解析提出灵芝为首个中药基原药用模式真菌，被Nature China 选为中国最佳研究亮点推介；完成并发表人参、丹参、赤芝、紫芝等中草药全基因组图谱和相关组学研究，首次提出并编著《本草基因组学》，主持无公害人参农田精细栽培和三七持续种植项目并推广应用；完成并编著《中国中药材产地生态适宜性数值区划》，避免中药材盲目引种栽培，成功培育并获批3个中药新品种证书；获国家发明专利和美国专利授权36项，发表论文400余篇，其中SCI论文200 余篇，包括国际著名期刊 Nature Communication 、Biotech Adv、PNAS等，论文被他引1.1万余次，H指数50（Google Scholar）。

获奖情况：

获吴阶平医药创新奖、诺奖之星、Agilent Thought Leadership Award等荣誉。获国家教育部高校成果科技进步一等奖1项、国家科技进步二等奖3项。

主要论文：

1. S Chen*.; Xu, J.; Liu, C.; Zhu, Y.; Nelson, D. R.; Zhou, S.; Li, C.; Wang, L.; Guo, X.; Sun, Y.; H Luo, Y Li, J Song, B Henrissat, A Levasseur, J Qian, J Li, X Luo, L Shi, LHe, L Xiang, X Xu, Y Niu, Q Li, Mira V. Han, H Yan, J Zhang, H Chen, A Lv, ZWang, M Liu, David C. Schwartz & C Sun*. Genome sequence of the model medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum. Nature communications 2012, 3, 913.[6]

2. Xu Jiang , Chu Yang, Liao Baosheng, Xiao Shuiming, Yin Qinggang1, Bai Rui1, Su He, Dong Linlin1, Li Xiwen1, Qian Jun1, Zhang Jingjing1, Zhang Yujun1, Zhang Xiaoyan1, Wu Mingli1, Zhang Jie1, Li Guozheng3, Zhang Lei, Chang Zhenzhan5, Zhang Yuebin6, Jia Zhengwei7, Liu Zhixiang1, Daniel Afreh, Ruth Nahurira8, Zhang Lianjuan1, Cheng Ruiyang1, Zhu Yingjie1, Zhu Guangwei1, Rao Wei7, Zhou Chao7, Qiao Lirui7, Huang Zhihai2, Cheng Yung-Chi, Chen Shilin, Panax ginseng genome examination for ginsenoside biosynthesis GigaScience doi: 10.1093 gix093, 2017

3. S Chen*.; Song, J.; Sun, C.; Xu, J.; Zhu, Y.; Verpoorte, R.; Fan, T.-P.*, Herbal genomics: Examining the biology of traditional medicines. Science 2015, 347 (6219), S27-S29.

4. Xu, Z.; Peters, R. J.; Weirather, J.; Luo, H.; Liao, B.; Zhang, X.; Zhu, Y.; Ji, A.; Zhang, B.; Hu, S.; Au, K. F.; Song, J*.; Shilin Chen*., Full-length transcriptome sequences and splice variants obtained by a combination of sequencing platforms applied to different root tissues of Salvia miltiorrhiza and tanshinone biosynthesis. The Plant Journal 2015.

5. Li, Q.; Li, Y.; Song, J.*; Xu, H.; Xu, J.; Zhu, Y.; Li, X.; Gao, H.; Dong, L.; Qian, J.; Sun, C, Shilin Chen*., High-accuracy de novo assembly and SNP detection of chloroplast genomes using a SMRT circular consensus sequencing strategy. New Phytologist 2014, 204 (4), 1041-1049.