BBCA: Improving the scalability of *BEAST using random binning

BMC Genomics

Table 1 ESS values when running *BEAST for 48, 96 or 168 hours on one Laurasiatheria dataset with 1500 bp.

Statistics	*BEAST (48 h)	*BEAST (96 h)	*BEAST (168 h)
posterior	93	5424	12813
prior	55	5517	14265
likelihood	12	72	184
species.coalescent	77	5635	14320
species.popSizesLikelihood	9	47	1303
speciation.likelihood	2112	5053	4722
species.popMean	11	29	1679

*BEAST reached an average of 92 million iterations in 48 hours, an average of 257 million iterations in 96 hours and an average of 597 million iterations in 168 hours.

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