This document discusses using feature selection techniques to address the curse of dimensionality in microarray data analysis. It presents the problem of having many more features than samples in bioinformatics tasks like cancer classification and network inference. It describes filter, wrapper and embedded feature selection approaches and proposes a blocking strategy that uses multiple learning algorithms to evaluate feature subsets in order to improve selection robustness when samples are limited. Finally, it lists several microarray gene expression datasets that are commonly used to evaluate feature selection methods.