BEAST2 Tutorials

35 tutorials found
BEAST 2.7.x
Troubleshooting initialization issues

Getting BEAST2 to start

Joëlle Barido-Sottani,Louis du Plessis

Updated Jun 2026

Troubleshooting SA ORC
BEAST 2.7.x
Troubleshooting-convergence-issues

Post-processing and improving performance

David A. Rasmussen

Updated Jun 2026

Troubleshooting
BEAST 2.7.x
Prior-selection

Prior selection and clock calibration using Influenza A data.

Veronika Bošková,Venelin Mitov,Louis du Plessis

Updated Jun 2026

Basic workflow BDSKY virology
BEAST 2.7.7
Structured birth-death model with BDMM-Prime

Population structure using the multi-type birth-death model

Denise Kühnert, Jūlija Pečerska, Ugnė Stolz, Tim Vaughan

Updated May 2026

Advanced analysis BDMM-Prime phylogeography virology
BEAST 2.7.x
Species Trees and Species Delimitation with SNAPPER

Analyzing SNP or AFLP data

Adam Leaché, Remco Bouckaert

Updated Nov 2025

Advanced analysis snapper population genetics
BEAST 2.7.7
Total Evidence Tutorial

Inferring phylogenies using genetic sequences and morphological characters

Bethany J. Allen,Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Updated Aug 2025

Advanced analysis MM SA macroevolution palaeontology
BEAST 2.7.x
Structured coalescent

Population structure using MultiTypeTree

Nicola F. Müller,Tim Vaughan

Updated Aug 2025

Advanced analysis MultiTypeTree phylogeography
BEAST 2.7.7
BDMM-Prime for Macroevolution

The fossilized birth-death process and extensions

Rachel C. M. Warnock,Timothy G. Vaughan,Louis du Plessis

Updated Jul 2025

Advanced analysis BDMM-Prime MM BEAST_CLASSIC macroevolution palaeontology
BEAST 2.7.8
StarBeast3 Tutorial

Estimating species trees using StarBeast3

Ugne Stolz, Jordan Douglas

Updated Jul 2025

Advanced analysis starbeast3 CCD macroevolution population genetics
BEAST >= 2.7
TiDeTree Tutorial

Reconstructing time-scaled single-cell phylogenies from genetic lineage tracing data

Sophie Seidel

Updated Jul 2025

Advanced analysis TiDeTree CCD single-cell
BEAST 2.7.x
Divergence Time Estimation

Dating Species Divergences with the Fossilized Birth-Death Process

Tracy A. Heath,Rachel Warnock,Bethany J. Allen

Updated Jul 2025

Basic workflow SA ORC palaeontology macroevolution
BEAST 2.7.7
Molecular clock dating and modelling rate variation

Accounting for evolutionary rate variation in passerine birds

Simon Ho,Jacqueline Nguyen

Updated Jul 2025

Advanced analysis bModelTest CCD
BEAST 2.7.x
Model selection

Model selection with nested sampling

Remco Bouckaert

Updated Jul 2025

Validation NS
BEAST 2.7.x
Introduction to BEAST2

This is a simple introductory tutorial to help you get started with using BEAST2 and its accomplices.

Jūlija Pečerska,Veronika Bošková,Louis du Plessis

Updated Jul 2025

Getting started CCD
BEAST 2.7.8
Time-stamped data

Time-stamped data

Remco Bouckaert, Walter Xie, Fábio K. Mendes, Eva Li and Alexei Drummond

Updated Jul 2025

Basic workflow CCD virology
BEAST 2.7.x
The ClaDS package

Inferring progressive changes in birth and death rates

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Updated Jun 2025

Advanced analysis ClaDS macroevolution
BEAST 2.7.x
The MSBD package

Inferring lineage-dependent birth and death rates

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Updated Jun 2025

Advanced analysis MSBD macroevolution
BEAST 2.7.4
Structured birth-death model

Population structure using the multi-type birth-death model

Denise Kühnert, Jūlija Pečerska

Updated Jun 2025

Advanced analysis bdmm phylogeography epidemiology
BEAST 2.7.x
MASCOT v3.0.0 Tutorial

Parameter and State inference using the approximate structured coalescent

Nicola F. Müller

Updated Jun 2025

Advanced analysis Mascot CCD phylogeography
BEAST 2.7.x
Visualizing BEAST2 results in R

Tutorial on visualising results from BEAST2 analyses.

Cecilia Valenzuela Agüí, Ugnė Stolz

Updated May 2025

Basic workflow
BEAST 2.7.x
Skyline plots

Inference of past population dynamics using Bayesian Coalescent Skyline and Birth-Death Skyline plots.

Nicola F. Müller,Louis du Plessis

Updated Jun 2024

Basic workflow BDSKY epidemiology
BEAST 2.7.x
StarBEAST2 v1.0.0 tutorial

Estimating species trees using StarBEAST2

Huw A. Ogilvie

Updated Aug 2023

Basic workflow StarBEAST2 macroevolution population genetics
BEAST 2.7.x
Substitution-model-averaging

A tutorial using bModelTest

David A. Rasmussen,Carsten Magnus,Remco Bouckaert

Updated Jul 2023

Basic workflow bModelTest
BEAST 2.6.6
Skyline analyses for macroevolution

Estimating evolutionary parameters from species phylogenies

Bethany J. Allen

Updated Mar 2023

Advanced analysis BDSKY feast macroevolution palaeontology
BEAST 2.6.0
Estimating Reassortment Networks with CoalRe

Estimating Reassortment Networks with CoalRe

Nicola F. Müller

Updated Apr 2022

Advanced analysis CoalRe virology
BEAST 2.6.3
PIQMEE-Tutorial

How to efficiently analyze large data sets containing duplicates

Veronika Bošková

Updated Feb 2022

Advanced analysis PIQMEE epidemiology
BEAST 2.5.2
AIM in StarBeast2 v0.15.2 Tutorial

Inferring species trees and gene flow from multiple loci

Nicola F. Müller

Updated Sep 2020

Advanced analysis StarBEAST2 CoupledMCMC population genetics macroevolution
BEAST 2.6.0
Bayesian Skyline with adaptive parallel Tempering with CoupledMCMC Tutorial

Adaptive parallel Tempering

Nicola F. Müller

Updated Dec 2019

Troubleshooting CoupledMCMC epidemiology
BEAST 2.5.2
Language Phylogenies

Using Babel to analyse linguistic data

Simon J. Greenhill, Konstantin Hoffmann

Updated Jul 2019

Basic workflow Babel BDSKY SA language evolution
BEAST 2.5.0
CladeAge Tutorial

Fossil-based divergence-time estimation with CladeAge

Michael Matschiner

Updated Feb 2019

Basic workflow CA macroevolution palaeontology
BEAST 2.5
Molecular dating using heterochronous data and substitution model averaging

Estimating the time of origin of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in North America

Sebastian Duchene, Tim Vaughan, Veronika Boskova

Updated Nov 2018

Basic workflow bModelTest virology epidemiology
BEAST 2.5.0
Bacter Tutorial

Inferring ARGs from bacterial sequence data.

Tim Vaughan

Updated Jun 2018

Advanced analysis bacter population genetics
BEAST 2.4.7
SCOTTI Tutorial

Transmission tree reconstruction with the structured coalescent

Louis du Plessis,Nicola de Maio

Updated Jul 2017

Advanced analysis SCOTTI epidemiology virology
BEAST 2.4.x
Model adequacy using BEAST2

Assessing clock and substitution models

David Duchêne

Updated Feb 2017

Validation
BEAST 2.4.4
Calibrated Species Trees

Estimating species divergence times using StarBEAST2

Huw A. Ogilvie

Updated Feb 2017

Basic workflow StarBEAST2 macroevolution population genetics

If you found Taming the BEAST helpful in designing your research, please cite the following paper:

Joëlle Barido-Sottani, Veronika Bošková, Louis du Plessis, Denise Kühnert, Carsten Magnus, Venelin Mitov, Nicola F. Müller, Jūlija Pečerska, David A. Rasmussen, Chi Zhang, Alexei J. Drummond, Tracy A. Heath, Oliver G. Pybus, Timothy G. Vaughan, Tanja Stadler (2018). Taming the BEAST – A community teaching material resource for BEAST 2. Systematic Biology, 67(1), 170–-174. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syx060