BEAST

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Description

BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian analysis of molecular sequences using MCMC.

Modulefile

beast

Documentation

BEAST homepage

Usage

Here is an example of a submission script for BEAST 1.8:

#$ -cwd
#$ -l h_vmem=4G
#$ -l h_rt=1:0:0

module load java beast
beast $BEAST/examples/Benchmarks/benchmark1.xml

Here is an example of a submission script for BEAST 2.3, which can only be run on RHEL6 compute nodes:

#$ -cwd
#$ -l h_vmem=4G
#$ -l h_rt=1:0:0,os=rhel6

module load java/8 beast/2.3.1
beast $BEAST/examples/testMultipleAlignments_randomTaxaOrder.xml

If you want to see the list of available commands, then load the necessary modulefiles in the interactive session on the head node and launch BEAST with the -help flag, like so:

 $ module load java beast
 $ beast -help