NBISweden/MrBayes

MrBayes is a program for Bayesian inference and model choice across a wide range of phylogenetic and evolutionary models. For documentation and downloading the program, please see the home page:

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README

Hi,

This is the GitHub repository for MrBayes, a program used for Bayesian
inference of phylogeny.


Build instructions, very very short version (would install MrBayes as
"/usr/local/bin/mb" on a Unix system):

    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/NBISweden/MrBayes.git
    cd MrBayes
    ./configure
    make && sudo make install

    Refer to the document called "INSTALL" for further information.


Current repository directory layout:

    .
    ├── autotools      : Files relating to the build system
    ├── doc
    │   └── manual     : The manual
    ├── examples       : Example input data sets
    └── src            : C source code


The MrBayes web site is available at

    http://mrbayes.net/


Historical releases are tagged with "v3.2.0" (etc.) from release 3.2.0
onwards.

The 'master' branch contains releases.

The 'develop' branch should hopefully, at all times, contain working
development code that at least compiles.  Apart from simple fixes, new
development happens on feature branches off the 'develop' branch, and
are merged back into 'develop' when finished.  This more or less follows
the "git-flow" branching model.

The 'gh-pages' branch contains the web site (only).

The 'testing' branch contains testing data files (only).

After release 3.2.6 (November 2015), MrBayes entered "maintenance mode",
and its care has been passed over to NBIS (National Bioinformatics
Infrastructure Sweden, http://nbis.se/).  The original development
team is still involved with the program, but any future releases will
probably be geared more towards bug-fixes rather than addition of new
features.

With kind regards,
    Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri, and
    Johan Nylander
    NBIS

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bayesian-inference
bioinformatics
markov-chain-monte-carlo
phylogenetics
research-tool

Significant stargazers

Zack M. Davis

148 followers · starred Nov 2018

Alexander Popkov

32 followers · starred Feb 2022

NBISweden/MrBayes

MrBayes is a program for Bayesian inference and model choice across a wide range of phylogenetic and evolutionary models. For documentation and downloading the program, please see the home page:

C

280

1,330 commits

updated Sep 29, 2026

See the code

README

Hi,

This is the GitHub repository for MrBayes, a program used for Bayesian
inference of phylogeny.


Build instructions, very very short version (would install MrBayes as
"/usr/local/bin/mb" on a Unix system):

    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/NBISweden/MrBayes.git
    cd MrBayes
    ./configure
    make && sudo make install

    Refer to the document called "INSTALL" for further information.


Current repository directory layout:

    .
    ├── autotools      : Files relating to the build system
    ├── doc
    │   └── manual     : The manual
    ├── examples       : Example input data sets
    └── src            : C source code


The MrBayes web site is available at

    http://mrbayes.net/


Historical releases are tagged with "v3.2.0" (etc.) from release 3.2.0
onwards.

The 'master' branch contains releases.

The 'develop' branch should hopefully, at all times, contain working
development code that at least compiles.  Apart from simple fixes, new
development happens on feature branches off the 'develop' branch, and
are merged back into 'develop' when finished.  This more or less follows
the "git-flow" branching model.

The 'gh-pages' branch contains the web site (only).

The 'testing' branch contains testing data files (only).

After release 3.2.6 (November 2015), MrBayes entered "maintenance mode",
and its care has been passed over to NBIS (National Bioinformatics
Infrastructure Sweden, http://nbis.se/).  The original development
team is still involved with the program, but any future releases will
probably be geared more towards bug-fixes rather than addition of new
features.

With kind regards,
    Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri, and
    Johan Nylander
    NBIS

Not written in Markdown, so it's shown here as plain text — view it formatted on GitHub.

bayesian-inference
bioinformatics
markov-chain-monte-carlo
phylogenetics
research-tool

Significant stargazers

Zack M. Davis

148 followers · starred Nov 2018

Alexander Popkov

32 followers · starred Feb 2022

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