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NU Taxon Update_Sept 2005
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Difference between version 3 and version 2:

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- ***ITIS TCS XML file huge for seven entire hierarchies - 650MB
+ **ITIS TCS XML file huge for seven entire hierarchies - 650MB
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+ ***Takes 2.5 minutes to read in and parse (slightly faster with StAX v SAX parser) and uses 350MB+ memory
+ ***Two pass parsing uses less memory but 4 minutes to parse
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+ *Additions/Refinements to visualisation
+ **Ability to find uniquely named taxa out of a set of classifications
+ **Speeded up large tree comparisons - 2.5s to find classification structural changes
+ **Simple hash functions to reference names across classifications reduce memory footprint for sparser datasets without detriment to speed
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award 0225676. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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