After returning to China, Han Bin led all the researchers in the Center to complete the precise sequencing of japonica rice chromosome 4 in the International Rice Genome Project, and achieved many important and innovative research results. As the first time in China to complete the accurate sequencing of a single chromosome of a large genome, it is a major breakthrough in basic research in the field of biology in China and has far-reaching academic significance and economic prospects. This achievement was also rated as the top ten national science and technology news in 2002 by academicians of the two academies.
Researcher Han Bin has been engaged in the basic research of genomics for a long time, and has devoted himself to exploring the structure, function and genetic improvement potential of rice genome by using the constantly developing theories and methods of genomics. The accurate sequencing and comprehensive analysis of rice chromosome 4 were completed, the comparative and functional research system of indica-japonica genome and gene level was developed, and the Qualcomm quantitative genotype analysis platform and transcriptome analysis platform based on the second generation sequencer were established. Related research results have been published in internationally renowned academic journals such as Nature, Genome Research and Plant Cell.