Phylogenetics: BEAST Lab
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EEB 349: Phylogenetics |
| In this lab you will learn how to use the program BEAST, and its companion BEAUTi, written by Alexei Drummond and Andrew Rambaut. BEAST differs from MrBayes in that it is designed to jointly infer rooted trees and divergence times under a relaxed clock model, the argument being that if it is possible to infer divergence times calibrated by constraints on the ages of certain groups, then this information should also be important for getting the tree topology correct. |
You will (part 1) go through a tutorial designed by BEAST's authors, then (part 2) you will analyze a data set you simulate yourself to confirm that the program works as expected (and, more importantly, you understand how to set it up to work as expected).
Contents
Part 1: Primate tutorial
TODO
Download BEAST
TODO
Download the tutorial
TODO
Part 2: Analysis of simulated data
TODO
