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

• Version: 1.10.4
• Added: August, 2014
• Updated: September, 2019
• Link: http://beast.community/

See which versions of beast are available:

$ module avail beast

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load beast/1.10.4
$ beast -h

Note: Please use the -threads option to limit the number of threads launched by BEAST to be the same amount as in your SLURM sbatch allocation. See the documentation for more information.

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/releases/download/v1.10.4/BEASTv1.10.4.tgz
$ tar xf BEASTv1.10.4.tgz
$ sudo cp -r BEASTv1.10.4 /export/apps/beast/1.10.4