Nat. Biotechnol. 30, 509–511 (2012); doi:10.1038/nbt.2243; published online 7 June 2012; corrected after print 7 December 2012

In the version of this article initially published, the statement on p. 509, column 2, top paragraph, was missing a few words, making it a fragment: “Besides the risk of duplicating research discoveries that would be missed if data and methods aren't shared,'” should have read, “Besides the risk of duplicating research, 'it's also about discoveries and breakthroughs that would be entirely missed if data and methods aren't shared'....” On p. 511, column 2, paragraph 3, it was stated that the Lung Genomics Research Consortium (LGRC) shares data within the consortium but not with a wider community. In fact, that is not the case, and the sentence now reads, “Although the LGRC research portal is open, it does not offer sequence-based data, which must go to the NIH database of Genotypes and Phenotypes, where controlled data access policies are in place and individuals are de-identified.” Also on p. 511, in column 3, paragraph 2, the European Systems Biology of Microorganisms program was incorrectly identified as SysMo-SEEK. It is SysMo. SysMO-Seek is a data-sharing platform developed for the 13 consortia that make up SysMo. The sentence now reads, “When developing a data-sharing platform called SysMO-SEEK for the European Systems Biology of Microorganisms program...”. The errors have been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of this article.