Correction: Antibodies and cryptographic hash functions: quantifying the specificity paradox

Correction on: Petrella RJ (2025) Antibodies and cryptographic hash functions: quantifying the specificity paradox. Front. Immunol. 16:1585421. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1585421 In paragraph 5 of the Introduction, in the first sentence under point #5, a single instance of the word "antigens" should be replaced with "antibodies" (9 th word in sentence). A correction has been made to the Introduction, as follows:"5. The specificity of individual epitopes for their cognate antibodies is quite high: in the range of 1-10 -14 to 1-10 -8 , but epitope space is so large that it virtually guarantees, statistically, that two randomly chosen antibodies in an immune repertoire will share many common epitopes in their binding spaces-conservatively, ≈ 10 6 to 10 16 protein or peptide epitopes, on average (Results Section 3.5), although this is a very small fraction of the total size of the relevant epitope space."The original version of this article has been updated.for a reason not seen here, please contact the journal's editorial office.