The Exelixis Lab


Enabling Research in Evolutionary Biology

MrBayes: a hybrid MPI/OpenMP version of MrBayes v3.1.2 by Alexis Stamatakis and Wayne Pfeiffer

Download a hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization of MrBayes. DNA and Protein models work correctly, you will probably need an Intel compiler (icc) to produce fast code.

By using this component you agree to cite it as:

F. Pratas, P. Trancoso, A. Stamatakis, L. Sousa: "Fine-grain parallelism using Multi-core, Cell/BE, and GPU systems: Accelerating the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function". Proceedings of ICPP 2009, accepted for publication, Vienna, Austria, September 2009. PDF

and

F. Ronquist, J.P. Huelsenbeck "MrBayes 3: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference under mixed models", Bioinformatics 19(12):1572-1574, 2003.

Some performance data: PDF