Hirudo nipponia Raw sequence reads

Leeches constitute a monophyletic group of highly specialized annelids which are widely distributed in lakes, rivers, and other wetland environments worldwide. Some leeches have a long history of application in the development of human medicine in both the West and the East. For example, Hirudo nipponia is a classic medicine in China and is used for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis ever since the Eastern Han Dynasty two thousand years ago. Despite of the pharmaceutical significances of leeches, genomic data are very scarce in the public database. Here we provide the next generation sequencing data (clean reads) of the genome of Hirudo nipponia.