Gene ID (in the order of entering the subset from the proposed method)

zAUC to column 1 (Standard error)

Gene ID (in the order of individual ranking)

zAUC  to column 3 (Standard error)

R87126

2.76 (0.40)

R87126

2.76 (0.40)

X55715

4.09 (0.83)

M63391

2.82 (0.56)

T86444

4.61 (0.94)

M26383

3.12 (0.64)

T87527

5.24 (1.07)

H08393

4.41 (0.97)

R62549

5.85 (1.21)

X12671

4.75 (1.03)

L37792

6.46 (1.36)

R36977

4.77 (1.03)

H08393

7.90 (1.80)

J02854

4.78 (1.04)

H16096

9.63 (2.21)

J05032

4.79 (1.04)

X52151

10.85 (2.59)

Z50753

5.06 (1.14)

R88740

12.19 (3.04)

M76378

5.08 (1.11)

D14812

15.07 (3.83)

M22382

5.23 (1.16)

X93510

17.48 (4.52)

X63629

5.42 (1.24)

J04794

21.22 (5.41)

M76378

5.57  (1.29)

U09564

25.62 (6.04)

H43887

5.60 (1.30)

R80966

30.04 (7.30)

M36634

5.61 (1.29)

Table 1: Optimum 15 genes for colon tumor/normal class discrimination.