Correction to: Genome Biol (2019) 20:258

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1866-1

Following publication of the original paper [1], the authors reported an error in the affiliation of Xin-Tian Hu, who is also affiliated with “Kunming Primate Research Center, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China”.