# beast

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** beast
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://beast.community/](http://beast.community/)

## Software 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.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load beast

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of beast available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail beast