Kuo chen chou biography of michael

Chinese-American biophysicist

Kuo-Chen Chou (周国城; August 14, –July 5, ) was a Chinese-American biophysicist and bioinformatician who founded the Gordon Life Science Institute, a non-profit research organization in Boston, Massachusetts.^[3] Among other contributions, he developed pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC), used in computational biology for proteomics analysis and pseudo K-tuple nucleotide composition (PseKNC) for genome analysis.^{[citation needed]} He is the father of James Chou.^[4]

In , it was revealed that Chou had been removed from the editorial board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology and banned as a reviewer for the journal Bioinformatics for repeatedly manipulating the peer-review process to gain citations to his own papers.^[5] The editors of the Journal of Theoretical Biology referred to it as "scientific misconduct of the highest order".^[5]

Research

In , he and his co-workers, by