The Broad Institute TCGA GDAC Firehose Provides Version-stamped, standardized datasetsPrecursor to automated analyses: aggregates all available sample batches into a single, uniformly-formatted bolus (one per disease X datatype), which can be immediately fed to algorithmic codes without further data preparation
Version-stamped packages of standard scientific analysis resultsAutomatically generated for dozens of algorithms: GISTIC, MutSig, Clustering, Correlation, ...
Version-stamped, biologist-friendly reportsEncapsulating analysis results in a form accessible to a wide audience, online for public browsing, and citable in the literature through DOIs
Version-stamped custom runs for TCGA analysis working groupsPerformed by request in support of TCGA marker paper analysis, on a much shorter timescale than the monthly data runs and quarterly analysis runs.
For a discussion of Firehose in the broader context of Big Cancer Data, see Nature Methods 10, 293–297 (2013) doi:10.1038/nmeth.2410 |