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 install beast following these instructions. Beast | bayesian evolutionary analysis sampling trees This is the main program that takes a control file generated by beauti and performs the analysis. Figtree is a program for viewing trees, including summary information produced by treeannotator, and producing publication quality figures. Installing beast beast has been developed in java, which allows the same code to run on any platform that has the java software installed
The current version of beagle will only work with beast v1.6 or later downloading and installing beagle. To inform beauti/beast about the sampling dates of the sequences, go to the tips menu and select the “use tip dates” option By default all the taxa are assumed to have a date of zero (i.e The sequences are assumed to be sampled at the same time Beast considers the present or most recent sampling time as time 0).
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