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macOS

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brew install beast

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overview

Package summary

Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees

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Commands and aliases

beast
beauti
loganalyser
logcombiner
treeannotator
treestat

history

Project history and usage

BEAST is Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees, a scientific software package for Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequences using MCMC.

Project history

The official documentation describes BEAST as focused on rooted, time-measured phylogenies, strict or relaxed molecular-clock models, coalescent population models, and Bayesian model testing.

The official About page credits Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut, and Marc A. Suchard as designers and developers, with a large contributor and institutional-support history across evolutionary-analysis research.

Adoption history

BEAST's adoption is primarily academic and scientific rather than general developer tooling. The official README distributes binaries for Mac, Windows, and UNIX/Linux and the Homebrew package exposes the command-line programs for Unix package users.

The supplied Homebrew metadata includes executables such as beast, beauti, loganalyser, logcombiner, treeannotator, and treestat, reflecting the suite-style workflow used to set up analyses, run MCMC, and inspect results.

How it is used

Typical BEAST workflows use BEAUti to prepare XML analysis files, beast to run Bayesian MCMC analyses, and companion tools such as LogAnalyser, LogCombiner, TreeAnnotator, and TreeStat to inspect or summarize outputs.

The package is Java-based and cross-platform, but the Homebrew formula makes its command-line tools available in the same way as other scientific CLI suites.

Why package nerds care

BEAST is significant as a package because it brings a full research-grade phylogenetics suite into package-manager workflows. It is not a small Unix filter, but Homebrew makes the JVM-backed analysis tools installable and scriptable beside other scientific software.

Timeline

2015: The official GitHub repository for beast-mcmc was created.
2016: The GitHub releases include BEAST v1.8.4.
2018: The GitHub releases include BEAST v1.10.4, identified by the README as the previous major release.
2025: The GitHub releases include BEAST X v10.5.0.
2026: The official site and repository continue to describe BEAST X and recent beta releases.

Related projects

BEAUti, LogAnalyser, LogCombiner, TreeAnnotator, and TreeStat are bundled companion programs in the BEAST workflow.
BEAST 2 is a related project in the broader BEAST ecosystem, but this Homebrew package points at the beast-mcmc repository and BEAST X documentation.

Sources

https://beast.community/
https://beast.community/about
https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc#readme
https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/releases
input.json source_facts.executables

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for beast. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 2 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure
`beast`	cli	global executable
`beauti`	cli	global executable
`loganalyser`	cli	global executable
`logcombiner`	cli	global executable
`treeannotator`	cli	global executable
`treestat`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-10

manager version10.5.0

manager updated2026-05-20

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv10.5.0

https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:beast
Version	10.5.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/beast
Homepage	https://beast.community/
Repository	https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc
Upstream docs	https://beast.community/
License	LGPL-2.1-or-later
Source archive	https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/archive/refs/tags/v10.5.0.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-05-20T10:15:39Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	beagle, openjdk@25
Build dependencies	ant
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	beast
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

package graph

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/beast.yml

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Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
package relationship graph
package version freshness
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