Bio::Phylo::Beagle - wrapper around the Beagle library This is perl wrapper code that allows one to use Bio::Phylo's data handling capabilities to interface with the Beagle library for likelihood calculations: * Beagle - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syr100 * Bio::Phylo - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-63 It is based on the SWIG bindings that were orginally developed for python by members of the Beagle team: http://code.google.com/p/beagle-lib/source/browse/trunk/examples/swig_python/README I developed this on a MacBook Pro with OS X snow leopard. I used the svn revision 1082 of Beagle to build against. I found that I needed to update my SWIG to version 2.0.4, with pcre (both from source). On operating systems that support pkg-config and backticks you should be able to build and install using the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test (sudo make install) <-- don't do this while these wrappers are experimental The unit test script t/test_simple.t does the same computation as the python test.py script in the Beagle-lib source tree, demonstrating most of the current functionality.