On 2013 Jun 13, Robert Tibshirani commented:

This paper came about by happenstance. Prof Gil Chu and his bright young grad student Virginia Goss contacted me, and asked my advice on how to analyse their data measured on this new technology called "microarrays". I had never heard of microarrays, and together we formulated a simple approach based in t-tests and FDR, estimated by permutations. My colleague Narasimhan Balasubramanian and I built some software--- an Excel-addin called SAM (Significance Analysis of Microarrays). [Trevor Hastie suggested the convenient Excel interface.) SAM became popular at Stanford and around the world. This paper, although simple in its ideas, has become one of my most cited papers.

On 2013 Jun 13, Robert Tibshirani commented:

This paper came about by happenstance. Prof Gil Chu and his bright young grad student Virginia Goss contacted me, and asked my advice on how to analyse their data measured on this new technology called "microarrays". I had never heard of microarrays, and together we formulated a simple approach based in t-tests and FDR, estimated by permutations. My colleague Narasimhan Balasubramanian and I built some software--- an Excel-addin called SAM (Significance Analysis of Microarrays). [Trevor Hastie suggested the convenient Excel interface.) SAM became popular at Stanford and around the world. This paper, although simple in its ideas, has become one of my most cited papers.