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 …

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

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

Using BEAGLE with BEAST BEAGLE is a high-performance library that can perform the core calculations at the heart of most Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics package. It …

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 …

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 …

TreeAnnotator is a program to summarize the information from a sample of trees produced by BEAST onto a single “target” tree. The summary information includes the posterior …

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.

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 …