Acknowledgements:

 We gratefully acknowledge financial support for this project from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioQuest Program and the Cornell Presidential Research Scholars, technical support from the Cornell University Computational Biology Services Unit (CBSU) and the Cornell Theory Center (CTC).  Christopher Maher (Cornell Univ.), Margaret Corbit (Cornell Univ.), Susan McCouch (Cornell Univ.), Jeremy Edwards (Cornell Univ.), David Schneider (USDA), Sam Cartinhour (USDA), and Qi Sun (CBSU) constitute the main researchers involved in the development of TransposonBank.  Other collaborators throughout the duration of the project included Sue Wessler and Ning Jiang from the University of Georgia, Sean Eddy from Washington University, and Thomas Bureau at McGill University.