Kuo chen chou biography of michael
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Kuo-Chen Chou
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