title: BEST: Bayesian estimation of species trees under the coalescent model.
abstract: BEST implements a Bayesian hierarchical model to jointly estimate gene trees and the species tree from multilocus sequences. It provides a new option for estimating species phylogenies within the popular Bayesian phylogenetic program MrBayes. The technique of simulated annealing is adopted along with Metropolis coupling as performed in MrBayes to improve the convergence rate of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.stat.osu.edu/~dkp/BEST.
authors.affiliation: Musuem of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. lliu@oeb.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D008390:Markov Chains; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software