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Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

2018/04/24 by Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond, Alexei J Drummond +4 · 548 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy032

openalex publication_date 2018/04/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Bayesian inference of phylogeny using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) plays a central role in understanding evolutionary history from molecular sequence data. Visualizing and analyzing the MCMC-generated samples from the posterior distribution is a key step in any non-trivial Bayesian inference. We present the software package Tracer (version 1.7) for visualizing and analyzing the MCMC trace files generated through Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Tracer provides kernel density estimation, multivariate visualization, demographic trajectory reconstruction, conditional posterior distribution summary, and more. Tracer is open-source and available at http://beast.community/tracer.

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