ICHEC Software
Information about software packages installed on the ICHEC systems.
BEAST
Versions Installed
Stokes: 1.6.0pre
Description
BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. It is entirely orientated towards rooted, time-measured phylogenies inferred using strict or relaxed molecular clock models. It can be used as a method of reconstructing phylogenies but is also a framework for testing evolutionary hypotheses without conditioning on a single tree topology. BEAST uses MCMC to average over tree space, so that each tree is weighted proportional to its posterior probability. We include a simple to use user-interface program for setting up standard analyses and a suit of programs for analysing the results.
License
The complete source code for BEAST is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Benchmarks
N/A.
Additional Notes
To use BEAST load the relevant environment module:
Further information can be obtained from http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Main_Page.
How to cite BEAST:
Drummond A.J. and Rambaut A. (2007)
BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 214