Tutorials 

There are some general notes that apply to all tutorials.

These tutorials use the graphical applications of BEAST to perform analyses using the provided example files:

• Divergence Dating (Version 2.2.0)
• Measurable evolving populations, estimating rates, bonus: BSP (Version 2.2.0)
• Extended Bayesian Skyline Plots
• STAR BEAST (Version 2.0.3)
• Ancestral reconstruction/Discrete phylogeography (Version 2.4.1)
• Continuous phylogeography on a sphere
• Birth Death Skyline (Version 2.1.1)
• Bayes Factor Delimitation of Species (*with genomic data; BFD*)
• Divergence dating with sampled ancestors (FBD model)
• Beginner’s Guide to the MultiTypeTree package for structured coalescent inference
• Codon Substitution Models Tutorial

Manuals 

• A rough guide to SNAPP
• DensiTree
• MASTER documentation
• A Rough guide to CladeAge for fossil calibrations with BEAST

Taming the BEAST Tutorials

Additional tutorials are available from the Taming the BEAST website.

For developers 

• Tutorial for Writing a BEAST2 package in Eclipse.
• Writing a package for a tree prior.

How To’s 

• Fix starting tree
• Constraints Of Monophyly
• Plotting *BEAST tree
• DensiTree How To’s
• Path Sampling
• Sample a discrete trait
• SNAPP for SNP and AFLP analysis
• EBSPAnalyser How To’s
• Total evidence with FBD dating
• Coalescent SIR
• Morphological models
• Phylodynamic models
• Multi-gamma site models for dealing with heterotachy
• Fixing shift times in Birth-death Skyline model