Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30515-5, published online 13 August 2018

The website on which the data underlying the study reported in Reference 17 was stored is no longer maintained. As such, in the Materials and Methods section, under subheading ‘In silico datasets for WMS and 16S rRNA profiling’,

“Sequences can be found at http://www.ucbioinformatics.org/metabenchmark.html.”

should read:

“Sequences can be found at https://zenodo.org/record/3662895#.XkMnZnUzbRI.”