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Bayesian inference of phylogeny

 MrBayes is a program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny.

Bayesian inference of phylogeny is based upon a quantity called the
posterior probability distribution of trees, which is the probability of a
tree conditioned on the observations. The conditioning is accomplished
using Bayes's theorem. The posterior probability distribution of trees is
impossible to calculate analytically; instead, MrBayes uses a simulation
technique called Markov chain Monte Carlo (or MCMC) to approximate the
posterior probabilities of trees. 

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v. 1.1
date: 2007/12/15 15:13:40;  author: miwi;  state: Exp;
MrBayes is a program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny.

Bayesian inference of phylogeny is based upon a quantity called the
posterior probability distribution of trees, which is the probability of a
tree conditioned on the observations. The conditioning is accomplished
using Bayes's theorem. The posterior probability distribution of trees is
impossible to calculate analytically; instead, MrBayes uses a simulation
technique called Markov chain Monte Carlo (or MCMC) to approximate the
posterior probabilities of trees.

WWW: http://mrbayes.csit.fsu.edu/

PR:		ports/118542
Submitted by:	mzaki at biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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