In the October 2016 issue, the piece “Reservoirs of resistance: To understand why antibiotics fail, geneticists chase the 'resistome'” (Nat. Med. 22, 1069–1071, 2016) neglected to include the full name and affiliation of Evan Jones, one of the sources quoted in the piece. Evan Jones serves as the CEO of OpGen. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of this article.