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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

To inform BEAUti/BEAST about the sampling dates of the sequences, go to the Tips menu and select the “Use tip dates” option. By default all the taxa are assumed to have a date of zero …

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

To test the installation, run BEAST and when the options dialog box appears, select “Use BEAGLE library” and “Show list of available BEAGLE resources”: The BEAGLE options …