MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models

• Published in: Bioinformatics Vol. 19; no. 12; pp. 1572 - 1574
• Main Authors: Ronquist, Fredrik, Huelsenbeck, John P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 12-08-2003; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Bayes Theorem; Biological and medical sciences; Evolution, Molecular; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene Expression Profiling - methods; General aspects; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Models, Genetic; Models, Statistical; Phylogeny; Sequence Alignment - methods; Sequence Homology; Software; Stochastic Processes; Stochastic model; Data analysis; Phylogenetic tree; Phylogeny; Web site; Bioinformatics; Bayes test
• ISSN: 1367-4803; 1460-2059; 1367-4811
• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180

MrBayes 3 performs Bayesian phylogenetic analysis combining information from different data partitions or subsets evolving under different stochastic evolutionary models. This allows the user to analyze heterogeneous data sets consisting of different data types—e.g. morphological, nucleotide, and protein—and to explore a wide variety of structured models mixing partition-unique and shared parameters. The program employs MPI to parallelize Metropolis coupling on Macintosh or UNIX clusters. Availability: http://morphbank.ebc.uu.se/mrbayes Contact: [e-mail] * To whom correspondence should be addressed.