Volume 9, no. 8, e01540-19, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01540-19. Page 2: Lines 3 and 4 of Acknowledgments should read as follows. "This work was supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor grant awarded to Mark Goldman (grant number 52008137). We thank Jonathan Eisen, Katherine Dahlhausen, Mark Goldman, Ashley Vater, and David Coil for help with course design and planning".

Halophile-specific enzymes have wide-ranging industrial and commercial applications. Despite their importance, there is a paucity of available halophile whole-genome sequences. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 16 diverse salt-tolerant strains of bacteria and archaea isolated from a variety of high-salt environments.