BEAUTi v1.5.3 does not include uniform priors on tip dates

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Steps to reproduce:

1) Load nexus into Beauti. 
2) Go to "Tip Dates" tab.
3) Check "Use tip dates"
4) select "Tip date sampling" to "Sampling with individual priors"
5) select "Priors" tab
6) add a uniform prior on any of the tips ("age(TAXON").
7) generate XML

- there will be no <uniformPrior> section in the <priors> XML chunk. If the 
prior is set to 
something else (e.g. exponential) then that WILL be in the priors.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dev@simon.net.nz on 25 Feb 2010 at 10:34

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BEAUti has default rule which does not generate <uniformPrior> section in the
<priors> using uniform prior. I do not why, you need to ask Alexei. 

Original comment by dong.w.xie@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2010 at 3:32

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Original comment by dong.w.xie@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2010 at 3:33

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This is still an issue in v1.6.1. Uniform prior is given as an option for tip 
date sampling (and is very applicable for this parameter), but the prior is not 
written to the xml and no warning is given, either upon generating the xml or 
initiating a BEAST run. If the appropriate prior is written after the fact into 
the xml, the tip date estimation works fine. If the default rule can't be 
changed to include this in <priors>, could a warning be written in to remind 
people to input it manually?
Thanks! Tara Fulton

Original comment by taralynn...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 3:44