Patent ID: 7324926

Claim:
A method of predicting the sensitivity or resistance of a sample to one or more compounds, wherein a sample is assigned to a chemosensitive class or a chemoresistant class, comprising the steps of: a. determining a weighted vote for the chemosensitive class or the chemoresistant class for one or more informative genes in said sample in accordance with a classifier built with a weighted voting scheme, wherein the magnitude of each vote depends on the expression level of said one or more informative genes in said sample and on the degree of correlation of the gene's expression with chemosensitivity or chemoresistance; b. summing the votes to determine the winning class, thereby predicting the sensitivity or resistance of a sample to one or more compounds, wherein a sample is assigned to a chemosensitive class or a chemoresistant class; and c. providing results of step (b) to an output assembly.