A full implementation of the relaxed clock for dating has been added to DAMBE. I have uploaded the new version of DAMBE (version 7.035), together with sample files, to its release site at:

http://dambe.bio.uottawa.ca/DAMBE/dambe.aspx

I have also added a brief tutorial on how to do dating with DAMBE at

http://dambe.bio.uottawa.ca/software_download/DatingWithDAMBE.pdf

A more comprehensive set of DAMBE tutorials, useful for teaching purposes is at

http://dambe.bio.uottawa.ca/software_download/LabManualDAMBE.pdf

For those who don’t know what DAMBE is: it is a comprehensive software workbench for molecular biology, genomics , molecular evolution and phylogenetics. Although it is a Windows program, it has been packaged to run on MAC and Linux.

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