Kuo-Chen Chou

Kuo-Chen Chou (; August 14, 1938–July 5, 2021) was a Chinese-American biophysicist and bioinformatician who founded the Gordon Life Science Institute, a non-profit research organization in Boston, Massachusetts. 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. He is the father of James Chou.

In 2020, 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. The editors of the ''Journal of Theoretical Biology'' referred to it as "scientific misconduct of the highest order". Provided by Wikipedia