BEAST2

BEAST 2 --> --> BEAST2 Search Primary Menu Skip to content About Book Citation Tutorials FAQ Blog Developers Source Code Writing a BEAST 2 Package Source Code Writing a BEAST 2 Package Search for: About BEAST 2 is a cross-platform program for Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequences. It estimates rooted, time-measured phylogenies 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 2 uses Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to average over tree space, so that each tree is weighted proportional to its posterior probability. BEAST 2 includes a graphical user-interface for setting up standard analyses and a suit of programs for analysing the results. Download The latest version of BEAST 2 is version 2.7.8.

To install this version, select one of the following to download the version for your operating system then update the BEAST.base and BEAST.app packages to v2.7.8: Download for Windows (90MB) Download for Mac OS X (87MB) Download for Linux x86 (91MB) / aarch64 (92MB) After this, or if you already have v2.7.X (X=0, 1 or 2) installed, you can upgrade via the package manager. Older versions are available from the BEAST2 releases web page .