Erratum: Green genes: bioinformatics and systems-biology innovations drive algal biotechnology

In the Review article ‘Green genes: bioinformatics and systems-biology innovations drive algal biotechnology’ by Maarten J.M.F. Reijnders, Ruben G.A. van Heck, Carolyn M.C. Lam, Mark A. Scaife, Vitor A.P. Martins dos Santos, Alison G. Smith, and Peter J. Schaap, which was published in the December 2014 issue of Trends in Biotechnology, Tables 1 and 2Tables 1 and 2 contained typographical errors in the footnotes, and Table 2Table 2 contained errors regarding the genome size and available proteins of Nannochloropsis species. These do not affect the conclusions mentioned in the paper.Table 2A list of selected industrially useful microalgaeSpeciesGenome sizea (Mb)Available proteinsbReported industrially relevant characteristicsaRefsChlamydomonas reinhardtii12015 144Model system for unicellular green algaeMonoraphidium neglectum6816 761Up to 21% dry weight neutral lipid under nitrogen starvation[73]Nannochloropsis gaditanaNannochloropsis oceanica342815 361242Can produce high amounts of ω-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acidsUp to 50% dry weight oil content[4]Phaeodactylum tricornutum2710 673Can produce antibacterial fatty acids (9Z)-hexadecenoic acid (palmitoleic acid; C16:1 n-7) and (6Z, 9Z, 12Z)-hexadecatrienoic acid (HTA; C16:3 n-4)[74]Chlorella variabilis469831The first sequenced Chlorella genomeA model genome for understanding other Chlorella species[75]Ostreococcus tauri12.69050Smallest sequenced microalgal genome with simple cellular structureChlorella protothecoides22.97039Up to 55% dry weight lipid content in heterotrophic growthHighest published biomass yield, average 3.37 gDW L−1 h−1 in heterotrophic growth[4,76,77]Chlorella vulgarisN.a.c292Up to 42% lipid content in photobioreactor with artificial waste waterUp to 26% total lipid in dry weight in heterotrophic growth[75,78]Dunaliella salinaN.a.238Up to 10% carotenoids in dry weight; 90% β-carotene in carotenoids[79]Haematococcus pluvialisN.a.60Highest reported yield of antioxidant astaxanthin (3.8% dry weight)[80]Botryococcus braunii∼166–21130Up to 57% total lipids in dry weightContains exopolysaccharides[81–83]Neochloris oleoabundansN.a.0Up to 56% total fatty acids in dry weight under nitrogen-deprivation[10] View Table in HTML aGenome size or characteristics are according to NCBI unless otherwise specified.bEstimated protein numbers are according to UniProt unless otherwise specified.cN.a., not available.The corrected version of the text in the footnote for Table 1 is: ‘aFor distantly’ instead of ‘aor distantly’. The corrected version of Table 2Table 2 and its footnotes is given below. The authors apologize for any inconvenience these errors might have caused.The errors as indicated in this erratum have been corrected in the online original article.