Apr 12, 2026 · 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 …

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 and …

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 …

Error messages generated by BEAST and its associated utilities.

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, …

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 can …

This tutorial can be easily adapted to display and summarize annotated summary BEAST trees and prepare publication-ready figures for other datasets. FigTree - this is an application for displaying and …

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

This realisation includes all the transitions (Markov jumps) between states along phylogenetic branches and the time (Markov rewards) spent in the states between two transitions. This tutorial discusses …