Between 1994 and 2003 I worked with Joseph Felsenstein, Mary Kuhner, and  Jon Yamato at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2001 we started to work on the program LAMARC, that now has many of the original features of MIGRATE and allows estimating additional population genetics parameters, such as population growth, recombination rate, and selection. MIGRATE and LAMARC share the same philosophy for the maximum likelihood inference of parameters, but are very different in their implementation of the  Bayesian inference module. MIGRATE evolved towards a fast (almost automatic use of small to large computer cluster), better visualization of posterior probabilities (PDF format), analyses of visited genealogies and parameters for population assignment of most recent common ancestor, visualization of migration events on visited genealogies and skyline plots for multiple populations. 

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