BEAST (Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees) 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.
BEAST is a single-threaded program. It is only advantageous to run BEAST on Biowulf if you need to run a large number of BEAST jobs simultaneously.
Create a swarm command file with a single line for each run. Sample file:
----- this file is beast.swarm------------ beast file1.xml beast file2.xml beast file3.xml beast file4.xml [...]
Submit this swarm of jobs with the command:
swarm -f beast.swarm
