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Batch effects and different data types greatly decrease the predictive performance of biomarker-based algorithms, and few methods have been widely applied to identify tissue origin of CUP up to now. To address this problem and assist in more precise diagnosis, we have developed a gene expression rank-based majority vote algorithm for tissue origin diagnosis of CUP (TOD-CUP) of most common cancer types. Based on massive tissue-specific RNA-seq data sets (10\u00a0553) found in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), 538 feature genes (biomarkers) were selected based on their gene expression ranks and used to predict tissue types. The top scoring pairs (TSPs) classifier of the tumor type was optimized by the TCGA training samples. To test the prediction accuracy of our TOD-CUP algorithm, we analyzed (1) two microarray data sets (1029 Agilent and 2277 Affymetrix\/Illumina chips) and found 91% and 94% prediction accuracy, respectively, (2) RNA-seq data from five cancer types derived from 141 public metastatic cancer tumor samples and achieved 94% accuracy and (3) a total of 25 clinical cancer samples (including 14 metastatic cancer samples) were able to classify 24\/25 samples correctly (96.0% accuracy). Taken together, the TOD-CUP algorithm provides a powerful and robust means to accurately identify the tissue origin of 24 cancer types across different data platforms. 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