Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02554-5, published online 18 Jan 2018.

The original PDF version of this Article contained errors in two equations. In equation 1, all Γ symbols were inadvertently omitted. In the second equation in the subsection entitled ‘1. Dispersion optimization’ within the Methods section ‘ZINB-WaVE estimation procedure’, all Ψ symbols were inadvertently omitted. These errors have been corrected in the PDF version of the Article; the HTML version was correct from the time of publication.