def _get_binary_paths():
    # check for binary
    list_binaries = [
        "raxmlHPC-PTHREADS-AVX2",
        "raxmlHPC-PTHREADS-AVX",            
        "raxmlHPC-PTHREADS-SSE3",
        "raxmlHPC-PTHREADS", 
        ]
    # expand for env path
    list_binaries = [os.path.join(sys.prefix, "bin", i) for i in list_binaries]
    return list_binaries