Dear TCGA Colleagues,

Version 2012_08_25 of the Firehose stddata package has been released and will
be available in the protected data tree pending internal mirroring by the DCC.
Highlights of this run are given below, and in our dashboard release notes at

			http://gdac.broadinstitute.org

If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to send them to
our gdac@broadinstitute.org mailing list.


Regards,
Michael S. Noble
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

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* Dicer:
	Removed legacy internal sample blacklist, see https://confluence.broadinstitute.org/display/GDAC/Standardized+Data+Run+Release+Notes#StandardizedDataRunReleaseNotes-20120804
	Updated filtering
	File containing list of filtered samples: https://confluence.broadinstitute.org/download/attachments/40927541/filteredSamples.2012_08_25__00_00_10.txt

* Gene annotated protein expression data (RPPA) are now available for LUSC, LUAD, and HNSC.
* New SARC disease type reflected (Sarcoma)

* Sample Changes:
       CN			+323	(5810 total)
       Clinical		+31		(5671 total)
       LowP			+402	(478  total)
       Methylation	+7		(5471 total)
       RPPA			+407	(2731 total)
       mRNA			+7		(2224 total)
       mRNAseq		+29		(3527 total)
       miR			+7		(1061 total)
       miRseq		+20		(4109 total)