Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09064-w, published online 21 August 2017

This Article contains a typographical error.

In the Methods section under subheading ‘TGIRT-seq of E. coli genomic DNA’,

“(400 units, 1 mM; InGex, LLC; St. Louis)”

should read:

“(400 units, 1 µM; InGex, LLC; St. Louis)”