Software Development
BEAST has now moved home to: http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk
Description:

BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. It is entirely orientated towards molecular clock analyses. It is intended not only as a method of constructing phylogenies but also of testing evolutionary hypotheses sampled over probable tree-space...

Produce high-quality figures of phylogenetic trees Current version: v1.3.1
Description:

FigTree is designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees and as a program for producing publication-ready figures. As with most of my programs, it was written for my own needs so may not be as polished and feature-complete as a commercial program...

Maximum likelihood multi-locus McDonald-Kreitman Tests Current version: v2.0
Description: Uncompiled source code for various multi-locus extensions of the McDonald-Kreitman test. These include new maximum likelihood methods allowing for between-locus variation in the rate of adaptive substitution...
R script for ML estimation of time-averaged trait values Current version: v1.0
Description:

R script implementing maximum likelihood estimator of the time averaged values of a quantitative trait over a pair of lineages. Useful for comparative studies of substitution rates...

Explore temporal signal and clocklikeness in trees Current version: v1.2
Description: Path-O-Gen is a tool for investigating the temporal signal and 'clocklikeness' of molecular phylogenies. It can read and analyse contemporaneous trees (where all sequences have been collected at the same time) and dated-tip trees (where sequences have been collected at different dates)...
A manual sequence alignment editor. Current version: v2.0a11
Description:

Se-Al is an application for creating multiple sequence alignments from nucleotide and amino acid sequences. At the moment it does not do any automatic alignments but is intended for the production of hand alignments and for preparing input for alignment programs such as CLUSTAL and phylogeny reconstruction programs such as PHYLIP and PAUP...

An application for the Monte Carlo simulation of DNA and amino acid sequence evolution along phyloge(...) Current version: v1.3.2
Description: Seq-Gen is a program that will simulate the evolution of nucleotide or amino acid sequences along a phylogeny, using common models of the substitution process...
A program for analysing results from Bayesian MCMC programs such as BEAST & MrBayes Current version: v1.5
Description:

Tracer is a program for analysing the trace files generated by Bayesian MCMC runs (that is, the continuous parameter values sampled from the chain). It can be used to analyse runs of BEAST, MrBayes, LAMARC and possibly other MCMC programs.

Although Tracer can be used with programs other than BEAST, users are strongly advised to join the BEAST mailing-list...

A program that calculates summary statistics of a set of trees Current version: v1.2
Description: TreeStat is an application that can process a set of trees in a PHYLIP or NEXUS format tree file and calculate a number of summary statistics for each...

The following programs are now no longer supported
This may mean they no longer run on newer computers or the analyses have been superceded by other software
 
Andrew Rambaut, 2007