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Rather than first picking the predictive pathways\/gene sets from a given collection and then training a predictive model on the subset of genomic features mapped to these selected pathways\/gene sets, we developed a novel machine learning algorithm (Path2Surv) that conjointly performs these two steps using multiple kernel learning.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We extensively tested our Path2Surv algorithm on 7655 patients from 20 cancer types using cancer-specific pathway\/gene set collections and gene expression profiles of these patients. 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