Everything about Beast

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BeastA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inferenceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling treesCited 11,274 times
5. Go sideways: Avatar (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: GeminiA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

  Alexei J Drummond, Andrew Rambaut · 2007 · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 11,274 citations

• Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

  Alexei J. Drummond, Marc A. Suchard, Dong Xie · 2012 · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 9,247 citations

• BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

  Remco Bouckaert, Joseph Heled, Denise Kühnert · 2014 · PLoS Computational Biology · 6,214 citations

• BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis

  Remco Bouckaert, Timothy G. Vaughan, Joëlle Barido-Sottani · 2019 · PLOS Computational Biology · 4,479 citations

• Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

  Marc A Suchard, Philippe Lemey, Guy Baele · 2018 · Virus Evolution · 3,787 citations

• Synaptic plasticity: taming the beast

  L. F. Abbott, Sacha B. Nelson · 2000 · Nature Neuroscience · 1,973 citations

• Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans

  David A. Puts · 2010 · Evolution and Human Behavior · 669 citations

• Face the Beast and Fear the Face: Animal and Social Fears as Prototypes for Evolutionary Analyses of Emotion

  Arne ÖHman · 1986 · Psychophysiology · 557 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference

  Guy Baele, Xiang Ji, Gabriel W. Hassler · 2025 · Nature Methods · 151 citations

• Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia and Febrile Neutropenia in the US: A Beast of Burden That Needs to Be Tamed?

  Ralph Boccia, John Glaspy, Jeffrey Crawford · 2022 · The Oncologist · 150 citations

• Taming the beast: a revised classification of Cortinariaceae based on genomic data

  Kare Liimatainen, Jan T. Kim, Lisa Pokorny · 2022 · Fungal Diversity · 87 citations

• Beauty of the beast: anticholinergic tropane alkaloids in therapeutics

  Kyu Hwan Shim, Min Ju Kang, Niti Sharma · 2022 · Natural Products and Bioprospecting · 58 citations

• Segmented modeling method of dam displacement based on BEAST time series decomposition

  Xiaoyan Xu, Jie Yang, Chunhui Ma · 2022 · Measurement · 35 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1)Joan Aiken · 1911
• BeautyRobin McKinley · 1978
• Lord of ThunderAndre Norton · 1962
• La belle et la bêteGabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve · 1996
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Original ScreenplayJ. K. Rowling · 2001
• Beauty and the BeastLouie Stowell, Victor Tavares · 2006
• BeowulfSeamus Heaney · 2000
• Beauty Queen / Whatever After (Bk. 7)Sarah Mlynowski, Emily Eiden · 2015

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