How to download and install BEAST on your computer.

Installing BEAST

BEAST has been developed in Java, which allows the same code to run on any platform that has the Java software installed. We have also created packages for each of the common operating systems to provide a user-interface that is ‘native’ and familiar.

Latest Version

The latest version is BEAST X v10.5.0-beta5
This is a beta version which is suitable general use but which may still have issues and bugs. Please report any to the BEAST GitHub issue list

The latest version of BEAST can always be found here: https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/releases/

On Mac

How to install BEAST on Mac OS X

On Windows

How to install BEAST on Windows

On Linux, Unix or Mac OS X Command Line

How to install BEAST on Linux or UNIX based operating systems

Installing BEAGLE

BEAGLE is an independently developed software library that BEAST uses to accelerate its core calculations. See here for more details about BEAGLE and installing it.