Nat. Biotechnol. 26, 317–325 (2008); published online 17 February 2008, corrected after print 16 May 2008

In the version of this article initially published, the list of authors omitted the final author, Krassen Dimitrov, and should have read as follows:

Gary K Geiss1, Roger E Bumgarner2, Brian Birditt1, Timothy Dahl1, Naeem Dowidar1, Dwayne L Dunaway1, H Perry Fell1, Sean Ferree1, Renee D George1,5, Tammy Grogan1, Jeffrey J James1, Malini Maysuria1, Jeffrey D Mitton1, Paola Oliveri3,5, Jennifer L Osborn1,5, Tao Peng2, Amber L Ratcliffe1, Philippa J Webster1, Eric H Davidson3, Leroy Hood4 & Krassen Dimitrov4,5

Affiliation number five should have included his present address and thus read:

5Present addresses: Department of Genome Sciences, Box 355065, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA (R.D.G.), Department of Biology, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK (P.O.), Department of Bioengineering, Box 355061, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA (J.L.O.) and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Building 75—Cnr of College and Cooper Road, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia (K.D.).

In addition, the following line has been added to the Author Contributions: K.D. provided the ideas and design of this technology and participated in the initial research. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.