This site is for the research, software and publications of Andrew Rambaut and members of his research group.

News
The BEAST software package has its own website: http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk
We now have a site for posting analyses and news about emerging infectious diseases: http://epidemic.bio.ed.ac.uk/. This includes a new section on the novel human 2c genotype coronavirus.

Recent publications
- The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.
- Andersen KG, Rambaut A, Lipkin WI, et al. (2020) Nature Medicine
- Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic.
- Dudas G, Carvalho LM, Bedford T, et al. (2017) Nature 2017/04/12/online
- Ebola Virus Glycoprotein with Increased Infectivity Dominated the 2013-2016 Epidemic.
- Diehl WE, Lin AE, Grubaugh ND, et al. (2016) Cell 167, 1088-1098.
- The Evolution of Ebola virus: Insights from the 2013-2016 Epidemic.
- Holmes EC, Dudas G, Rambaut A, et al. (2016) Nature 538, 193-200.
- MERS-CoV recombination: implications about the reservoir and potential for adaptation.
- Dudas G & Rambaut A (2016) Virus Evolution 2, vev023.
- Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance.
- Quick J, Loman NJ, Duraffour S, et al. (2016) Nature 530, 228-232.
- Epidemic Reconstruction in a Phylogenetics Framework: Transmission Trees as Partitions of the Node Set .
- Hall M, Woolhouse M & Rambaut A (2015) PLOS Comput Biol 11, e1004613.
- Evolution and Spread of Ebola Virus in Liberia, 2014-2015.
- Ladner JT, Wiley MR, Mate S, et al. (2015) Cell Host and Microbe 18, 659-669.
- Ebola virus epidemiology, transmission, and evolution during seven months in Sierra Leone.
- Park DJ, Dudas G, Wohl S, et al. (2015) Cell 161, 1516-1526.
- Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014-2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.
- Carroll MW, Matthews DA, Hiscox JA, et al. (2015) Nature 524, 97-101.
Latest software
- 2019-06-13 - TempEst
- Explore temporal signal and clocklikeness in trees (formerly Path-O-Gen)
- 2018-11-25 - FigTree
- Produce high-quality figures of phylogenetic trees
- 2018-08-01 - BEAST
- BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences.
- 2018-05-01 - Tracer
- A program for analysing results from Bayesian MCMC programs such as BEAST & MrBayes
- 2017-09-17 - Seq-Gen
- An application for the Monte Carlo simulation of DNA and amino acid sequence evolution along phyloge(...)
- 2008-11-29 - TreeStat
- A program that calculates summary statistics of a set of trees
- 2002-12-01 - Phylogen
- 2002-10-04 - TreeEdit