Abstract:
Describes BEAST 2 for developers. BEAST 2 is a complete rewrite of the popular BEAST software developed by Alexei Drumond, Andrew Rambaut, Marc Suchard and others. BEAST 2 is released in 2011 and a book of which I am co-author will appear in 2012. BEAST is widely used in the life sciences and associated papers get thousands of citations, and the book is not expected to be the main citation for the software.