Correction:In the article ‘Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database GigaScience 2016 5:21’ [1] the authorship list should have included Leon Court, who was responsible for sample collection and preparation, sampling design and sequencing method design. The authors regret this omission.
Authors: Andrew Bissett; Anna Fitzgerald; Thys Meintjes; Pauline M Mele; Frank Reith; Paul G Dennis; Martin F Breed; Belinda Brown; Mark V Brown; Joel Brugger; Margaret Byrne; Stefan Caddy-Retalic; Bernie Carmody; David J Coates; Carolina Correa; Belinda C Ferrari; Vadakattu V S R Gupta; Kelly Hamonts; Asha Haslem; Philip Hugenholtz; Mirko Karan; Jason Koval; Andrew J Lowe; Stuart Macdonald; Leanne McGrath; David Martin; Matt Morgan; Kristin I North; Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne; Elise Pendall; Lori Phillips; Rebecca Pirzl; Jeff R Powell; Mark A Ragan; Susanne Schmidt; Nicole Seymour; Ian Snape; John R Stephen; Matthew Stevens; Matt Tinning; Kristen Williams; Yun Kit Yeoh; Carla M Zammit; Andrew Young Journal: Gigascience Date: 2016-05-18 Impact factor: 6.524