Dear TCGA Colleagues,

Version 2012_03_06 of the Firehose stddata package has been uploaded and will
be available in the tcga4yeo tree pending internal mirroring by the DCC.  The
highlights of this run are:

    1)  Draft PANCANCER dataset included:  34 of 40 possible pipelines ran
        to completion, for an 85% success rate.  At present this dataset is
        a simple aggregation of all tumor data, e.g. irrespective of hg18
        versus hg19 alignment, but we will be advocating in followup TCGA
        discussions that these and other distinctions (like platform) will
        need to be considered more carefully in order to maximize scientific
        accuracy.
    2)  1100 new methylation samples.
    3)  First samples of bladder cancer (BLCA) mutation data: 28 in all
    4)  To simplify access, all public archives from our stddata runs are now
        also hosted directly from Broad servers; no Level_1, Level_2, or PHI
        clinical data is included--credentialed download from the DCC remains
        the only way these protected data may be obtained.

For more information please consult our dashboard at

    https://confluence.broadinstitute.org/display/GDAC/Dashboard-Stddata

Comments and questions are welcome at gdac@broadinstitute.org.


Regards,
Michael S. Noble