What is BEAST? BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian analysis of molecular sequences using MCMC. It is entirely orientated towards rooted, time-measured phylogenies inferred using strict …

Running BEAST for the first time This tutorial will guide you through running BEAST and some of its accessory programs to do a simple phylogenetic analysis. If you haven’t already, download and …

FigTree is a program for viewing trees, including summary information produced by TreeAnnotator, and producing publication quality figures.

BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian analysis of molecular sequences using MCMC. It is entirely orientated towards rooted, time-measured phylogenies inferred using strict or relaxed …

Installing BEAST BEAST has been developed in Java, which allows the same code to run on any platform that has the Java software installed. We have also created packages for each of the …

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Downloading and installing BEAST on Windows BEAST is a software package for phylogenetic analysis with an emphasis on time-scaled trees.

Custom substitution models BEAUti provides a fairly standard selection of substitution models, but BEAST can deal with a wide range of possible models through XML specification. This can be done …

Tracer (now at version 1.7.2) is a software package for visualising and analysing the MCMC trace files generated through Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Tracer provides kernel density estimation, …

The BEAUti & The BEAST software package Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Utility (BEAUti) BEAUti is a graphical user-interface (GUI) application for generating BEAST XML files. It is distributed in the …