Tracer is graphical tool for visualization and diagnostics of MCMC output. It can read output files from MrBayes and BEAST.

Downloading

You can download Tracer from here: https://github.com/beast-dev/tracer/releases/latest

Using Tracer

The Divergence Dating tutorial is available describing how to use Tracer to analyse the output from BEAST.

Citing Tracer

The recommended citation for this program is:

• Rambaut A, Drummond AJ, Xie D, Baele G and Suchard MA (2018) Posterior summarisation in Bayesian phylogenetics using Tracer 1.7. Systematic Biology. syy032. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy032

For more information and to download it, go to the Tracer web page.