Correction to: BMC Genomics 22, 829 (2021)https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-08150-8Following publication of the original article [1], it was reported that the article erroneously stated that the launch year of NovaSeq 6000 was 2013 instead of 2017.Furthermore, the following ‘Availability of data and materials’ and ‘Competing interests’ declarations have been added to the article:Availability of data and materialsThe transcriptome and LncRNA data are deposited at the CNGB Sequence Archive (https://db.cngb.org/cnsa/) under project accession number CNP0002262.Competing interestsLei Sun, Yongfeng Liu, XiaoChao Zhao, Zhiliang Zhou, Mingjie Luo, Letian Zhou, and Lidong Zeng are employees of GeneMind Biosciences Company Limited. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.The original article [1] has been updated.