Our work is a contribution towards understanding the biology of mobile genetic elements (MGE). These constitute a significant proportion of most eukaryotic genomes. We demonstrate the presence of signals at the sites where mobile genetic elements preferentially insert in several genomes. These signals have been mapped into a general machine learning protocol. A web enabled computational protocol for the analysis of mobile genetic elements and their insertion sites, and a resource base containing several genomes,termed ELAN has been developed. This suite of tools for analysis and a relational...