This page lists our custom-loaded Kids First projects by cancer_study_identifier and name and lists out release notes each time the project is updated. Common updates include new/improved clinical data, genomic data, as well as any bug fixes.
Portal Updates
- December 9, 2025: 🚀 v6.4.3 Upgrade
- 📥 Virtual studies and complete studies can be exported in cBio study file format alike
- 🧬 RNA data can now be plotted across
Provisional studies
- 💄 Example query now points to existing study patient, “What’s New” to this page
- January 16, 2026: 🔧 v6.4.4 Upgrade
- Employ bug fix to allow changes in sample count to be accurately displayed in dynamic virtual studies
- May 6, 2026: 🏗️ v6.4.5 Upgrade + Infrastructure Upgrades
- Upgrade database to support support virtual studies with custom ID
- Better custom ID virtual study payload validation
Study Update Table of Contents
ijaz_cole_2019: Pediatric high-grade glioma resources from the Children's Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (CHOP, Publication)
- July 1, 2021: 🎉 Initial release
- July 22, 2021:
- 🐛 Bug fix - RNAseq z scores were done across genes by sample, instead of vice-versa. The update fixes that
- 📝 Change
GENDER to SEX as flexibility between the two terms is now deprecated
pbta_all: Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas (PBTA, Provisional)
- February 1, 2020: 🎉 Initial release
- April 23, 2021: 🐛 Fixed CNV values for samples with ploidy > 2, which cause an inflated number of losses to be reported
- June 9, 2021: 🐛 This update fixes RNAseq Z score to be by gene and not sample
- WARNING! This fix was unsuccessful and did the exact opposite. Load from July 23, 2021 actually fixes this bug
- July 1, 2021: ✨ Begun expansion of data availability with a pilot addition of consented clinical research panel data
- July 23, 2021: 🔧 Fixed z score bug, added a couple additional clinical sequencing samples
- September 8, 2021: 🎆 Addition of all available consented clinical sequencing research subject
- September 13, 2021: 🔨
- Removed non-brain tumor samples from study
- Added in matched normal sample IDs
- Improved CANCER_TYPE display, removing repeat diagnoses
- September 23, 2021: 🚀
- Added DGD Fusion files
- Added additional DGD MAF files
- October 13, 2021: 📝
- Updated missing diagnosis data for a subset of samples