Correction to: Genome Biol (2017) 18:182

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1299-7

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors would like to highlight the following two corrections:

  1. 1)

    The updated “Availability of data and materials” declaration to the article:

  2. 2)

    The authors would like to clarify that the kraken db build command in the manuscript is for the bacterial database; the command for the standard db is available through the kraken manual: kraken-build --standard --db $DBNAME