Beast is a cross-platform program for bayesian analysis of molecular sequences using mcmc. 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.
Beast xml files with default transition kernels, that can easily be adapted to using adaptive mcmc approaches, typically contain a mixture of so-called scaleoperators, randomwalkoperators and. To inform beauti/beast about the sampling dates of the sequences, go to the tips menu and select the “use tip dates” option. Beauti & the beast and other programs software packages in the beast family.
Programs distributed as part of the core beast package beauti | bayesian. If you want to install beast on the mac os x command-line, we strongly recommend using the homebrew package manager. Running beast once the beast xml file has been created the analysis itself can be performed using beast.
Run beast by double-clicking on the beast icon. Once beast has started a dialog box.