Methods and systems for technology analysis and mapping

Systems and methods for cladistics-based content searching, analysis, and diagrammatic representation of results; the importing of patent claims, parsing of the claims into their elements and sub-elements, semantically analyzing the claims sub-elements to determine the technology; semantically analyzing the database records to find matching technology content, displaying the matching technology content, and visually linking the matching technology content to relevant hierarchically-displayed elements and sub-elements.