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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …