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ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2021

Relax, Keep Walking - A Practical Guide to Continuous Phylogeographic Inference with BEAST.

Simon Dellicour, Mandev S Gill, Nuno R Faria, Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G Pybus, Marc A Suchard, Philippe Lemey

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Article in Molecular biology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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7 authors.

Simon DellicourSpatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9558-1052
Mandev S GillDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Nuno R FariaMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, J-IDEA, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Andrew RambautInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Oliver G PybusDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Marc A SuchardDepartment of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Philippe LemeyDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Funding

Technology CoreU19AI135995 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI Robert F Garry · 2018 to 2026
$32.0M
Spread and Evolution of West Nile virus in the United StatesR56AI149004 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI ANDERSEN, KRISTIAN GRAUGAARD · 2020 to 2020
$912k
Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1Medical Research Council MR/S0195/1Medical Research Council MR/S019510/1NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI149004NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI135995Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 204311/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 206298/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatially explicit phylogeographic analyses can be performed with an inference framework that employs relaxed random walks to reconstruct phylogenetic dispersal histories in continuous space. This core model was first implemented 10 years ago and has opened up new opportunities in the field of phylodynamics, allowing researchers to map and analyze the spatial dissemination of rapidly evolving pathogens. We here provide a detailed and step-by-step guide on how to set up, run, and interpret continuous phylogeographic analyses using the programs BEAUti, BEAST, Tracer, and TreeAnnotator.

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SoftwareBayes TheoremBiological EvolutionPhylogeographyBEASTcontinuous phylogeographyrelaxed random walkviruses

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PMID33528560
PMCPMC8321535

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