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Ali RH, Bark M, Miró J, Muhammad SA, Sjöstrand J, Zubair SM, Abbas RM, Arvestad L
BMC Bioinformatics 18 (1) 97 [2017-02-10; online 2017-02-10]
MCMC-based methods are important for Bayesian inference of phylogeny and related parameters. Although being computationally expensive, MCMC yields estimates of posterior distributions that are useful for estimating parameter values and are easy to use in subsequent analysis. There are, however, sometimes practical difficulties with MCMC, relating to convergence assessment and determining burn-in, especially in large-scale analyses. Currently, multiple software are required to perform, e.g., convergence, mixing and interactive exploration of both continuous and tree parameters. We have written a software called VMCMC to simplify post-processing of MCMC traces with, for example, automatic burn-in estimation. VMCMC can also be used both as a GUI-based application, supporting interactive exploration, and as a command-line tool suitable for automated pipelines. VMCMC is a free software available under the New BSD License. Executable jar files, tutorial manual and source code can be downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/rhali/visualmcmc/ .
PubMed 28187712
DOI 10.1186/s12859-017-1505-3
Crossref 10.1186/s12859-017-1505-3
pii: 10.1186/s12859-017-1505-3
pmc: PMC5301390