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    • Contents
    • Getting Started
      • About
      • Installing
      • Introductory Tutorials
    • Software Packages
      • BEAUti, BEAST and other programs
      • BEAGLE Library
      • Tracer
      • FigTree
      • TempEst
      • SPREAD4
      • spread.gl
      • PiBUSS
      • BEASTGen
    • Tutorials
      • First Tutorial
      • Second Tutorial
      • Rates and Dates
      • Temporal Signal using TempEst
      • Bayesian Evaluation of Temporal Signal
      • Online phylodynamic inference
      • Phylodynamics of an epidemic
      • Phylodynamics of seasonal influenza
      • Analysing Continuous Traits
      • Analysing Continuous Traits without Sequence Data
    • How-To Guides
      • Constructing a model in BEAUti
      • Creating taxon sets
      • Creating fixed local clocks
      • Using an empirical tree distribution
      • Specify sampling dates
      • Tip date sampling
      • Analysing BEAST output
      • Convergence diagnostics in Tracer
      • Create custom substitution models
      • Create Markov-modulated models
    • Advanced Tutorials
      • Hierarchical Phylogenetic Model Tutorial
      • Markov Jumps and Rewards Tutorial
      • Adjusted Bayes Factor Tutorial
      • Adaptive MCMC Tutorial
      • Model Selection Tutorial
      • Model Selection Advanced Tutorial
      • Model Selection Examples
      • Clock Model Averaging Tutorial
      • Epoch Model Tutorial
      • Time-Dependent Rate Model Tutorial
      • Phylogeography with individual travel history
      • Analysing datasets with tens of thousands of taxa
    • Workshop Tutorials
      • Estimating Rates and Dates
      • Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza
      • Phylodynamics inference of respiratory viruses
      • Model Selection and Testing
      • Phylogeographic Diffusion in Discrete Space
      • Phylogeographic Diffusion in Continuous Space, YFV
      • Phylogeographic Diffusion in Continuous Space, WNV
      • Genomic epidemiology
      • Visualizing phylogenetic trees using FigTree
    • Reference
      • Effective Sample Size
      • Optimizing Performance
      • Molecular Clocks
      • Tree Priors
      • Parameter Priors
      • Summarizing trees
      • XML Reference
    • Help
      • FAQ
      • Error Messages
      • Topics
      • Glossary

    News

    This year's posts

    • 17 JulSome notes on pattern compression and speeding up BEAST analysis
    • 09 JulBEAST X (v10.5.0-beta5) released

    2023

    • 08 AugDeveloping for BEAST

    2019

    • 16 MayEbola Virus Local Clock Analysis

    2018

    • 17 NovMeasuring BEAST performance
    • 14 NovBEAST v1.10.4 released
    • 28 OctBEAST v1.10.3 released
    • 10 JunBEAST v1.10.0 released

    2016

    • 17 JunBEAST v1.8.4 released


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