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Often, the final analysis focuses on a P-value-based ranking of locations which might then be investigated further in follow-up experiments. However, this strategy may result in small effect sizes, with low P-values, being ranked more favorably than larger more scientifically important effects. Bayesian ranking techniques may offer a solution to this problem provided a good prior distribution for the collective distribution of effect sizes is available.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We develop an Empirical Bayes ranking algorithm, using the marginal distribution of the data over all locations to estimate an appropriate prior. In simulations and analysis using real datasets, we demonstrate favorable performance compared to ordering P-values and a number of other competing ranking methods. 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