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In the next place, the binary relations induced by this decision subspace are defined. After that, some information entropy for a gene decision space are investigated. Lastly, several gene selection algorithms in a gene decision space are presented by using the presented information entropy. The presented algorithms are applied to gene expression data classifications. Multiple publicly available gene expression datasets are employed to evaluate the gene selection performances of the proposed algorithms, while two commonly-used classifiers, KNN and CART, are utilized to obtain 10 fold cross validation accuracy of classification (ACC). 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