Correction to: Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.7, published online 05 February 2019

After publication it was noticed that the sequence of the primer 16S_BV3r was given incorrectly in Table 2 as AGTGGCGGACGGGTGAGTAA. The correct sequence is CCGCGGCTGCTGGCAC and this has been amended in the new version of Table 2.