MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models

Fredrik Ronquist; John P Huelsenbeck

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180

MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models

Bioinformatics. 2003 Aug 12;19(12):1572-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180.

Authors

Fredrik Ronquist¹, John P Huelsenbeck

Affiliation

¹ Department of Systematic Zoology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. fredrik.ronquist@ebc.uu.se

PMID: 12912839
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Bayes Theorem
Evolution, Molecular*
Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
Models, Genetic*
Models, Statistical*
Phylogeny*
Sequence Alignment / methods*
Sequence Homology
Software
Stochastic Processes