Erratum to: CoMEt: a statistical approach to identify combinations of mutually exclusive alterations in cancer

In the section ‘Benchmarking of methods for individual gene sets’, the first sentence of the second paragraph should specify the number of genes included in the gene set as 100, and it should read: “We compared CoMEt to the other methods on datasets with m = 100 genes and n = 500 samples and with implanted pathways with coverages γ ranging from 0.1 to 1.0.” In the section ‘Benchmarking identification of collections of gene sets’, the first paragraph should specify that genes mutated in fewer than 1% of total samples (that is in fewer than 5 out of 500 samples) were removed from the simulation, and the sixth sentence in this paragraph should read: “Third, we include m = 20,000 genes and remove those genes that are mutated in fewer than 1% of total samples (that is in fewer than 5 out of 500 samples) (Additional file 1: Declarations Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.