🤺 About Me

🏫 Education

Undergraduate (2018~2022):

Biological Science, Zhejiang University, Colleage of Life Sciences

PhD student (2022~ ):

Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Life Sciences Institute

🎯 Focus on

• 🧬 Metagenomics and microbial ecology: mechanisms shaping microbial diversity patterns, distribution and dynamics.
• 💻 Bioinformatics and systems biology: developing ecological network or other mathematical modeling approaches for microbial ecology.

🤩 Hobbies

• 📺 Animation such as Attack on Titan, CLANNAD, and Rick and Morty.

• 🦉 Bird watching

• 🌼 Plant cognition

• 🎮 Games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Stardew Valley, and Hollow Knight

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📥 Contact information

Any question?

• 📩 Please contact pengchen2001@zju.edu.cn or bfzede@gmail.com.

Publications 📄

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In submission

1. Chen, Q., Yuan, M., Jiang, L., Wei, X., Liu, Z., Peng, C., Huang, Z., Tang, D., Wu, X., and Sun, J. (2023). Progressive community, biogeochemical and evolutionary remodeling of the soil microbiome underpins long-term desert ecosystem restoration. Biorxiv, 2023–2029.
2. Chen, Q., Zhang, B., Peng, C., Huang, J., Shen, X., and Jiang, C. (2024). Kun-peng: an ultra-memory-efficient, fast, and accurate pan-domain taxonomic classifier for all. Biorxiv, 2024–12.
3. Peng, C., Huang, Z., Wei, X., Jiang, L., Zhu, X., Liu, Z., Chen, Q., Shen, X., Gao, P., and Jiang, C. (2025). MetaNet: a scalable and integrated tool for reproducible omics network analysis. Preprint at bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.26.661636 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.26.661636.
4. Peng, C.#, Tan, S.#, Rouillard, A.#, Zhou, L., Li, Q.-Y., Wei, X., Xiang, X., Chen, Q., Yang, C., Jiang, L., et al. (2025). Microbial diversity and functional potential in greenlandic soils under rapid arctic warming. Preprint at Social Science Research Network, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5254634 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5254634.
5. Zhang, W., Peng, C.#, Gu, S., Su, X., He, G., Han, Y., He, C., Zhang, L., Wang, M., Zhong, L., et al. (2025). Mapping longitudinal lung mycobiome characteristics of severe COVID-19 patients, a prospective, multicenter cohort study. Preprint at Research Square, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6189458/v1 https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6189458/v1.

Published

1. Li, Y.#, Peng, C.#, Chi, F., Huang, Z., Yuan, M., Zhou, X., and Jiang, C. (2025). The iPhylo suite: an interactive platform for building and annotating biological and chemical taxonomic trees. Briefings Bioinf. 26, bbae679. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae679.
2. Li, Y.#, Jiang, C.#, Yu, W.#, Peng, C.#, Gu, S.#, Ren, X., Ding, P., Qi, Z., Huang, S., Chen, Q., et al. (2025). Antiviral treatment and longitudinal viral mutation dynamics of the first documented human case of H10N5. J. Infect. 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2025.106580.
3. Huang, Y.#, Wei, X.#, Huang, X.#, Peng, C.#, Lin, B., Ren, X., He, G., Zhang, X., Jiang, C., Huang, L., et al. (2025). Pneumocystis jirovecii associated with lung virome in patients with severe pneumonia. Iscience 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113710.
4. Huang, L.#, Li, K.#, Peng, C.#, Gu, S., Huang, X., Gao, C., Ren, X., Cheng, M., He, G., Xu, Y., et al. (2025). Elevated antibiotic resistance gene abundance of ICU healthcare workers, a multicentre, cross-sectional study. Crit. Care 29, 170. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-025-05408-5.
5. Peng, C., Chen, Q., Tan, S., Shen, X., and Jiang, C. (2024). Generalized reporter score-based enrichment analysis for omics data. Briefings Bioinf. 25, bbae116. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae116.
6. Huang, Z.#, Peng, C.#, Rong, Z., Jiang, L., Li, Y., Feng, Y., Chen, S., Xie, C., and Jiang, C. (2024). Longitudinal mapping of personal biotic and abiotic exposomes and transcriptome in underwater confined space using wearable passive samplers. Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 5229–5243. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c09379.
7. Chen, Q., Peng, C., Xie, R., Xu, H., Su, Z., Yilihan, G., Wei, X., Yang, S., Shen, Y., Ye, C., et al. (2024). Placental and fetal enrichment of microplastics from disposable paper cups: implications for metabolic and reproductive health during pregnancy. J. Hazard. Mater. 478, 135527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135527.
8. Zhu, X., Xu, T., and Peng, C. (2022). Advances in MALDI mass spectrometry imaging single cell and tissues. Front. Chem. 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.782432.
9. Wu, H.-R., Peng, C., and Chen, M. (2022). Rethinking the complexity and uncertainty of spatial networks applied to forest ecology. Sci. Rep. 12, 15917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16485-9.
10. Fan, L., Peng, C., Zhu, X., Liang, Y., Xu, T., Xu, P., and Wu, S. (2022). Dihydrotanshinone I enhances cell adhesion and inhibits cell migration in osteosarcoma U−2 OS cells through CD44 and chemokine signaling. Molecules 27, 3714. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123714.
11. Xia, M., Liu, Y., Liu, J., Chen, D., Shi, Y., Bai, Z., Xiao, Y., Peng, C., Si, J., Li, P., et al. (2021). A new synonym of polygonatum in China, based on morphological and molecular evidence. PhytoKeys 175, 137–149. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.175.63383.

R packages 📦

1. pcutils

   • It contains many useful functions for statistics and visualization.

   • See the Github page for the HTML documentation.

2. MetaNet

   • It is a comprehensive network analysis package, especially in various biological omics.

   • See the MetaNet Tutorial

3. pctax

   • It contains basic pipelines for omics analysis, especially for microbiome analysis.

   • See the pctax Tutorial

4. ReporterScore

   • Generalized reporter score-based enrichment analysis for omics data.

   • See the Github page for the HTML documentation.

5. plot4fun

   • plot4fun provides many interesting functions for plotting.

   • See the Github page for the HTML documentation.

Web servers 🕸

1. iPhylo

   • It is a comprehensive, automated, and interactive platform for biological and chemical taxonomic analysis, developed in cooperation with Li Yueer.

   • See the iPhylo Tutorial for more details.