Correction to: FASTA/Q data compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop genomics: space and time savings made easy

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified that the affiliations of Giuseppe Cattaneo and Raffaele Giancarlo were interchanged. The correct affiliations are given below. The correct affiliation of Giuseppe Cattaneo is: 2Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy. The correct affiliation of Raffaele Giancarlo is: 3Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. The original article [1] has been corrected.