Correction to: Nature Communications; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07805-7; published online: 18 December 2018

The original version of this Article omitted a reference to previous work in ‘Stojanovic, M. N. & Stefanovic, D. A deoxyribozyme-based molecular automaton. Nat. Biotechnol. 21, 1069–1074 (2003)’. This has been added as reference 42. The following has been added after the third sentence of the fifth paragraph of the Discussion: ‘Integration could also allow more sophisticated information processing, for example as shown by the classic deoxyribozyme-based automaton that plays tic-tac-toe42, to direct structural reconfiguration (Supplementary Discussion)’. This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.