14. A computer-implemented method of harvesting a collection of references, the method comprising: accessing, by a computerized reference analysis system, a database storing a plurality of digital representations of references as a collection of references, each reference being an instantiation of information for a patent, patent application, publication, presentation, recording, use, or sale that is publicly accessible as of a date and includes further information of other references cited by the reference; creating, by the computerized reference analysis system, a root and branch tree structure database from the database, the root and branch tree structure database storing the collection of references as root references and branch references based on citations of the respective references for a selectable number of generational levels of root references and branch references in the root and branch tree structure database; receiving, by the computerized reference analysis system, at least one input for the generation of a seed set of potentially relevant references; generating, by the computerized reference analysis system, the seed set based on at least the at least one input; interfacing, by the computerized reference analysis system, with the root and branch tree structure database; searching, by the computerized reference analysis system, the root and branch tree structure database for relevant references, according to the seed set, by determining a primary reference and storing the primary reference in the set of relevant references, receiving a depth value defining the multigenerational citation levels in the root and branch tree structure to be searched, receiving a direction value defining the direction from the primary reference to be searched, iteratively traversing from the primary reference along the root and branch tree structure according to the direction value and the depth value to discover at least one traversed reference, storing the traversed reference in the set of relevant references; de-duplicating, by the computerized reference analysis system, the relevant references; and creating, by the computerized reference analysis system, a harvested silo having de-duplicated relevant references for dynamic presentation to a user based on a user-defined weighting criteria.
17. The computer-implemented method of harvesting a collection of references of claim 14 , wherein searching the collection of references for relevant references further comprises at least one of a keyword string search, a semantic search, an index search, or a classification search.