使用 Homebrew 安装 beast

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• beast
• beauti
• loganalyser
• logcombiner
• treeannotator
• treestat

项目历史

The official documentation describes BEAST as focused on rooted, time-measured phylogenies, strict or relaxed molecular-clock models, coalescent population models, and Bayesian model testing.

The official About page credits Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut, and Marc A. Suchard as designers and developers, with a large contributor and institutional-support history across evolutionary-analysis research.

采用历史

BEAST's adoption is primarily academic and scientific rather than general developer tooling. The official README distributes binaries for Mac, Windows, and UNIX/Linux and the Homebrew package exposes the command-line programs for Unix package users.

The supplied Homebrew metadata includes executables such as beast, beauti, loganalyser, logcombiner, treeannotator, and treestat, reflecting the suite-style workflow used to set up analyses, run MCMC, and inspect results.

使用方式

Typical BEAST workflows use BEAUti to prepare XML analysis files, beast to run Bayesian MCMC analyses, and companion tools such as LogAnalyser, LogCombiner, TreeAnnotator, and TreeStat to inspect or summarize outputs.

The package is Java-based and cross-platform, but the Homebrew formula makes its command-line tools available in the same way as other scientific CLI suites.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

BEAST is significant as a package because it brings a full research-grade phylogenetics suite into package-manager workflows. It is not a small Unix filter, but Homebrew makes the JVM-backed analysis tools installable and scriptable beside other scientific software.

时间线

• 2015: The official GitHub repository for beast-mcmc was created.
• 2016: The GitHub releases include BEAST v1.8.4.
• 2018: The GitHub releases include BEAST v1.10.4, identified by the README as the previous major release.
• 2025: The GitHub releases include BEAST X v10.5.0.
• 2026: The official site and repository continue to describe BEAST X and recent beta releases.

Related projects

• BEAUti, LogAnalyser, LogCombiner, TreeAnnotator, and TreeStat are bundled companion programs in the BEAST workflow.
• BEAST 2 is a related project in the broader BEAST ecosystem, but this Homebrew package points at the beast-mcmc repository and BEAST X documentation.

来源

• https://beast.community/
• https://beast.community/about
• https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc#readme
• https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/releases
• input.json source_facts.executables