Info and materials for the RevBayes workshop held at NIMBioS
RevBayes performs statistical phylogenetic analysis. For this workshop, you need to understand the basic principles of statistical analysis and probability, especially Bayesian statistics. Here is a brief tutorial that conveys the basic ideas:
RevBayes is started from the command line. Try using the command prompt and familiarize yourself with the following commands:
Try this simple Unix tutorial if you need more guidance: http://matt.might.net/articles/basic-unix/
RevBayes is designed to be very similar to R. Additionally, some of the visualization of the output from RevBayes will be displayed using R. Hence, some brief familiarity with R is required.
A very short introduction to R
RevBayes performs statistical phylogenetic analysis. You should familiarize yourself a little with the basic ideas behind Bayesian phylogenetics. Here are three great papers that should introduce you to the topic if you are not familiar yet.
The RevBayes workshops will also use additional software for analysis of output and summarization of the MCMC. Please download and install the following:
To ease the transition into the workshop, some very little first exposure to RevBayes will help. Get started by installing RevBayes and try the very first tutorials so that you know how RevBayes looks.