Overview

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 analyzing the results.

Using

Use the module name beast2 to discover version available and load the application.

GUI

An interactive GUI session on Beartooth OnDemand is required to run the GUI version of beast or the beauti application. Non-GUI applications do not have this requirement.

Multicore

The beast application allows you define multiple cores/threads within the calls using the -threads option. See beast -help for more information.