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Erratum to: Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity

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After publication of this work [1], we noted that one of the references in the introduction was not described properly. With respect to the original authors, we clarify that this sentence in introduction: “Due to the lack of a gold standard of ‘correct’ OTUs, several measurements have been used to evaluate the performance of clustering methods, for example, rationality of OTU structure [2, 3], computational efficiency (that is, runtime and memory requirements) [4], and the ability to cope with OTU inflation [5]” should be stated as “Due to the lack of a gold standard of ‘correct’ OTUs, several measurements have been used to evaluate the performance of clustering methods, for example, rationality of OTU structure [2], use of the Matthew’s Correlation Coefficient [3], computational efficiency (that is, runtime and memory requirements) [4], and the ability to cope with OTU inflation [5]”.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China

    Yan He, Xiao-Tao Jiang, Hua-Fang Sheng & Hong-Wei Zhou

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA

    J. Gregory Caporaso

  3. Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-4073, USA

    J. Gregory Caporaso & Jai Ram Rideout

  4. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Science, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, 70 Ship Street, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    Susan M. Huse

  5. Tiburon, CA, 94920, USA

    Robert C. Edgar

  6. Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0763, USA

    Evguenia Kopylova & Rob Knight

  7. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    William A. Walters

  8. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0763, USA

    Rob Knight

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YH, XTJ, SMH, RK, and HWZ conceived the method; JGC, JRR, RCE, and WAW implemented the software; YH, XTJ, JGC, HFS, SMH, and HWZ performed the experiments and analyzed the data; YH, SMH, JGC, JK, EK, RK, and HWZ wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x.

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He, Y., Caporaso, J.G., Jiang, X. et al. Erratum to: Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity. Microbiome 3, 34 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-015-0098-1

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