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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

BEAST | Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees. This is the main program that takes a control file generated by BEAUti and performs the analysis.

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 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 …