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Correction to: Comprehensive benchmarking and ensemble approaches for metagenomic classifiers

Genome Biology volume 20, Article number: 72 (2019) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 21 September 2017

Correction to: Genome Biol (2017) 18:182

https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s13059-017-1299-7

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

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    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

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  1. McIntyre ABR, et al. Comprehensive benchmarking and ensemble approaches for metagenomic classifiers. Genome Biol. 2017;18:182. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s13059-017-1299-7.

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  1. Tri-Institutional Program in Computational Biology and Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Alexa B. R. McIntyre & David Danko

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    Alexa B. R. McIntyre, Ebrahim Afshinnekoo, Elizabeth Hénaff, Noah Alexander, David Danko, Jonathan Foox, Sofia Ahsanuddin & Christopher E. Mason

  3. The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    Alexa B. R. McIntyre, Ebrahim Afshinnekoo, Elizabeth Hénaff, Noah Alexander, David Danko, Jonathan Foox, Sofia Ahsanuddin & Christopher E. Mason

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    Rachid Ounit & Stefano Lonardi

  5. School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA

    Ebrahim Afshinnekoo

  6. Accelerated Discovery Lab, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, 95120, USA

    Robert J. Prill

  7. One Codex, Reference Genomics, San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA

    Samuel S. Minot & Nick Greenfield

  8. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    Scott Tighe

  9. CosmosID, Inc, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA

    Nur A. Hasan, Poorani Subramanian, Kelly Moffat & Rita R. Colwell

  10. Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Nur A. Hasan

  11. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, 35806, USA

    Shawn Levy

  12. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Rita R. Colwell

  13. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Gail L. Rosen

  14. The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Christopher E. Mason

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McIntyre, A.B.R., Ounit, R., Afshinnekoo, E. et al. Correction to: Comprehensive benchmarking and ensemble approaches for metagenomic classifiers. Genome Biol 20, 72 (2019). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s13059-019-1687-2

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