The development of microarray technology has supplied a large volume of data to many fields. The gene
microarray analysis and classification have demonstrated an effective way for the effective diagnosis of
diseases and cancers. In as much as the data achieving from microarray technology is very noisy and also
has thousands of features, feature selection plays an important role in removing irrelevant and redundant
features and also reducing computational complexity. There are two important approaches for gene
selection in microarray data analysis, the filters and the wrappers. To select a concise subset of informative
genes, we introduce a hybrid feature selection which combines two approaches. The fact of the matter is
that candidate’s features are first selected from the original set via several effective filters. The candidate
feature set is further refined by more accurate wrappers. Thus, we can take advantage of both the filters
and wrappers. Experimental results based on 11 microarray datasets show that our mechanism can be
effected with a smaller feature set. Moreover, these feature subsets can be obtained in a reasonable time.