Getting BEAST2 to start
Joëlle Barido-Sottani,Louis du Plessis
Updated Jun 2026
Post-processing and improving performance
David A. Rasmussen
Updated Jun 2026
Prior selection and clock calibration using Influenza A data.
Veronika Bošková,Venelin Mitov,Louis du Plessis
Updated Jun 2026
Population structure using the multi-type birth-death model
Denise Kühnert, Jūlija Pečerska, Ugnė Stolz, Tim Vaughan
Updated May 2026
Analyzing SNP or AFLP data
Adam Leaché, Remco Bouckaert
Updated Nov 2025
Inferring phylogenies using genetic sequences and morphological characters
Bethany J. Allen,Joëlle Barido-Sottani
Updated Aug 2025
Population structure using MultiTypeTree
Nicola F. Müller,Tim Vaughan
Updated Aug 2025
The fossilized birth-death process and extensions
Rachel C. M. Warnock,Timothy G. Vaughan,Louis du Plessis
Updated Jul 2025
Estimating species trees using StarBeast3
Ugne Stolz, Jordan Douglas
Updated Jul 2025
Reconstructing time-scaled single-cell phylogenies from genetic lineage tracing data
Sophie Seidel
Updated Jul 2025
Dating Species Divergences with the Fossilized Birth-Death Process
Tracy A. Heath,Rachel Warnock,Bethany J. Allen
Updated Jul 2025
Accounting for evolutionary rate variation in passerine birds
Simon Ho,Jacqueline Nguyen
Updated Jul 2025
Model selection with nested sampling
Remco Bouckaert
Updated Jul 2025
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
Time-stamped data
Remco Bouckaert, Walter Xie, Fábio K. Mendes, Eva Li and Alexei Drummond
Updated Jul 2025
Inferring progressive changes in birth and death rates
Joëlle Barido-Sottani
Updated Jun 2025
Inferring lineage-dependent birth and death rates
Joëlle Barido-Sottani
Updated Jun 2025
Population structure using the multi-type birth-death model
Denise Kühnert, Jūlija Pečerska
Updated Jun 2025
Parameter and State inference using the approximate structured coalescent
Nicola F. Müller
Updated Jun 2025
Tutorial on visualising results from BEAST2 analyses.
Cecilia Valenzuela Agüí, Ugnė Stolz
Updated May 2025
Inference of past population dynamics using Bayesian Coalescent Skyline and Birth-Death Skyline plots.
Nicola F. Müller,Louis du Plessis
Updated Jun 2024
Estimating species trees using StarBEAST2
Huw A. Ogilvie
Updated Aug 2023
A tutorial using bModelTest
David A. Rasmussen,Carsten Magnus,Remco Bouckaert
Updated Jul 2023
Estimating evolutionary parameters from species phylogenies
Bethany J. Allen
Updated Mar 2023
Estimating Reassortment Networks with CoalRe
Nicola F. Müller
Updated Apr 2022
How to efficiently analyze large data sets containing duplicates
Veronika Bošková
Updated Feb 2022
Inferring species trees and gene flow from multiple loci
Nicola F. Müller
Updated Sep 2020
Adaptive parallel Tempering
Nicola F. Müller
Updated Dec 2019
Using Babel to analyse linguistic data
Simon J. Greenhill, Konstantin Hoffmann
Updated Jul 2019
Fossil-based divergence-time estimation with CladeAge
Michael Matschiner
Updated Feb 2019
Estimating the time of origin of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in North America
Sebastian Duchene, Tim Vaughan, Veronika Boskova
Updated Nov 2018
Inferring ARGs from bacterial sequence data.
Tim Vaughan
Updated Jun 2018
Transmission tree reconstruction with the structured coalescent
Louis du Plessis,Nicola de Maio
Updated Jul 2017
Assessing clock and substitution models
David Duchêne
Updated Feb 2017
Estimating species divergence times using StarBEAST2
Huw A. Ogilvie
Updated Feb 2017
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