BEAST v. 2.0 vs v.1.7.5

[Jose Tavera]

Hi all,
I was wondering if someone can please give me some lights in the main differences between BEAST v 2.0 and v. 1.7.5 and why both versions are being developed at the same time? I read in BEAST 2.0 page that this version eventually will replace v.1 but apparently both versions are being continuously improved.

Thanks

Jose

[Kai He]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Alexei Drummond <alexei....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Veera,

BEAST2 was a complete re-write of BEAST1 to make some things better including:

(1) BEAUTI2 and BEAST2 now use the same XML input files so that models can easily be modified by BEAUTI at a later time.

(2) BEAST2 periodically logs the full state to disk which allows for checkpointing and easily continuing an analysis if it hasn't been run long enough.

(3) BEAST2 has an Add-on structure so that updates to add-ons can be made without an entire re-release of the whole software package.

(4) BEAUTI2 user interface is now programmed by XML templates rather than Java code allowing new models to be more easily added to the user interface so that XML editing is not needed as much.

However because BEAST2 was a re-write we are still working though the compatibilities with some of the auxiliary software that has developed around BEAST 1.x. Thanks for bringing this particular issue to our attention. If you could email your log file to me we should be able to fix this problem very quickly.

Cheers

Alexei

On 15/02/2013, at 7:13 AM, veera jaime wrote:

Jose

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