Correction to: European Biophysics Journal (2018) 47:917–924 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-018-1313-3

In the original publication of the article, Table 1 was incorrect. The correct table (Table 1) is given below:

Table 1 Interaction energy minima (in kcal/mol) obtained in Poltev and Shulyupina (1986), calculated in the present paper with \(\epsilon (r)=1\) and \(\epsilon (r)\) given by expression (5) for the A·T(\(E_{tot}^{AT}\)) and G·C (\(E_{tot}^{GC}\)) Watson–Crick pairs