BBCA: Improving the scalability of *BEAST using random binning

BMC Genomics

Table 2 ESS values when running *BEAST for 48, 96 or 168 hours on one Laurasiatheria dataset with 1000 bp.

Statistics	*BEAST (48 h)	*BEAST (96 h)	*BEAST (168 h)
posterior	2128	5966	15274
prior	2192	6948	15162
likelihood	175	150	154
species.coalescent	2139	6966	15446
species.popSizesLikelihood	7	13	761
speciation.likelihood	2248	6989	14804
species.popMean	13	24	1109

*BEAST reached an average of 114 million iterations in 48 hours, an average of 301 million iterations in 96 hours and an average of 656 million iterations in 168 hours.

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