Since my post on July 11 I have obtained access to the Genboree website, which is built & maintained by the Bioinformatics Research Laboratory
within the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine.
The site has an area dedicated to the TCGA project, and there you can see reports relating to the progress of the sequencing effort, which are compiled quarterly and show progress and quality metrics. The May report says that about 300 samples (of the 1000 total - 500 tumor, 500 blood) have had about 2/3rds of the genes in the list completed.
More interesting (OK, for me) is the genome browser there, which is based on the UCSC browser, but allows you to see the mutations in specific genes, categorized as SNPs. You can zoom down to the sequence level and see the sites that have been found to be mutated. There is an interactive list of the genes included, which you can use to navigate straight to that genes region - very handy.
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