Dear TCGA Colleagues,


Version 2012_03_21 of the Firehose stddata package has been uploaded and will
be available in the protected data tree pending internal mirroring by the DCC.
The highlights of this run are:

    1)	Almost 800 new methylation samples, by virtue of new support for the
        Human Methylation 450 platform.
    2)  First MAFs for stomach and cervical (133 STAD samples, 36 CESC)
    3)  Dashboards updated to reflect the TCGA responsible data use policy.
    4)  An alpha version of the new firehose_get utility has been posted to

                http://gdac.broadinstitute.org

        which has the potential to radically simplify retrieval of public
        results & reports.

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