1 .TH mrbayes "1" "May 2008" "mrbayes 3.1.2" "User Commands"
3 mb \- A program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny
5 .B mb [OPTION]... [FILE]...
7 A program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny.
9 MrBayes is a program for the Bayesian estimation of
10 phylogeny. Bayesian inference of phylogeny is based upon a quantity
11 called the posterior probability distribution of trees, which is the
12 probability of a tree conditioned on the observations. The
13 conditioning is accomplished using Bayes's theorem. The posterior
14 probability distribution of trees is impossible to calculate
15 analytically; instead, MrBayes uses a simulation technique called
16 Markov chain Monte Carlo (or MCMC) to approximate the posterior
17 probabilities of trees.
19 You can get a full manual in PDF format at their website. The URL is
20 http://mrbayes.csit.fsu.edu/mb3.1_manual.pdf
28 This manual page has been written by Abhishek Dasgupta
29 <abhidg@gmail.com> for Archlinux since the original package did not
30 provide a manual page. It is based upon some slight additions and
31 alterations to the Ubuntu manual page for the same package.