Pelargonium x hortorum Transcriptome or Gene expression. Pelargonium x hortorum

Transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) on non-model organisms is becoming increasing popular and has been applied in many research areas. The wide use of RNA-seq and various sequencing platforms and assemblers calls for a thorough comparison of the most popular assemblers for the different platforms in terms of data quality, cost and time. We have conducted a cross-platform comparison of Pelargonium x hortorum transcriptome assembly using the Illumina and Roche/454 sequencing platforms with five different assemblers (Newbler, MIRA, SOAPdenovo, SOAPtrans, Trinity).