Transcriptome sequencing of rice leaves with blast symptoms collected from rice fields of Italy in 2017 and release of raw sequence data on OpenRiceBlast website for open access

Infected rice samples were collected by Anna Maria Picco and team, and sent to the Sainsbury Laboratory for RNA extraction and sequencing. Library preparation and RNA-Seq sequencing runs were performed by Genewiz using Illumina HiSeq-2500 machines to produce paired-end reads with ~300 bp average insert size. Here we report the release of these data to general public with open access on OpenRiceBlast website.