Dear TCGA Colleagues,

Version 2012_10_24 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 suggestions for improvement, 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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* Tumor Sample Changes:

  BCR           +38   (7123 total)
  Clinical     	+54   (5798 total)
  CN            +34   (6212 total)
  MAF           +323  (3183 total)
  Methylation   +437  (6471 total)
  miRseq        +851  (5644 total)
  mRNA          +1    (2225 total)
  mRNAseq       +547  (4371 total)

* Normal samples (where available) are henceforth included for each platform,
  yielding a total of 5544 archives submitted to the DCC this run (+2262
  increase from the previous count of 3282 archives submitted).  Archives
  containing normal samples will have -Normal appended to the disease code
  (e.g. BRCA-Normal); the names of archives containing tumor samples remain
  unchanged, and both kinds are retrievable with the existing public version
  of firehose_get (v0.3.7).

* Two enhancements to samples summary report available on our dashboard:

    - Now lists every sample that is filtered from the datastream, with an
      explanation of why (as per our online FAQ)

    - Heatmaps are now included that display available samples per data
	  type vs. participants