- Huizhu Ren and Ying Shen*, "RNA-binding residues prediction using structural features", BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 16, pp. 249, 2015. 
- Ying Shen and Lin Zhang, "Gene function prediction with knowledge from Gene Ontology", Int. J. Data Mining and Bioinformatics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 50-62, 2015. 
- Ying Shen, Hau-San Wong, Shaohong Zhang, and Lin Zhang, "RNA structural motif recognition based on least-squares distance", RNA, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1183-1191, 2013. 
- Ying Shen, Shaohong Zhang, Hau-San Wong, and Lin Zhang, “Characterization of semantic similarity on Gene Ontology based on a shortest path approach”, Int. J. Data Mining and Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no.1, pp. 33-48, 2014. 
- Lin Zhang, Zhixuan Ding, Hongyu Li, Ying Shen*, Jianwei Lu, "3D Face Recognition Based on Multiple Keypoint Descriptors and Sparse Representation", PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 6, e100120:1-9, 2014. 
- Lin Zhang, Zhixuan Ding, Hongyu Li, Ying Shen*, "3D Ear Identification Based on Sparse Representation", PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 4, e95506:1-9, 2014. 
- Ying Shen, Hau-San Wong, Shaohong Zhang, and Zhiwen Yu, “Feature-based 3D motif filtering for ribosomal RNA”, Bioinformatics, vol. 27, no. 20, pp. 2828-2835, 2011.   
 - Yin Shen and Lin Zhang, "The hasp motif: A new type of RNA tertiary interactions", in Proc. ICIC2017. 
- Huizhu Ren, Ying Shen*, and Lin Zhang, "The λ-turn: A new structural motif in ribosomal RNA", in Proc. ICIC2015. 
- Ying Shen and Lin Zhang, "Improving classification accuracy using Gene Ontology information", in: Proc. ICIC2013. 
- Ying Shen, Shaohong Zhang, and Hau-San Wong, "A new method for measuring the semantic similarity on Gene Ontology", in: Proc. BIBM, pp. 533-538, 2010.