beast

Summary

• Module Name: beast

• Support Level: Secondary Support

• Software Access Level: Open Access

• Home Page: 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