Saccharina japonica Transcriptome or Gene expression. Saccharina japonica

Saccharina japonica is the most important economic seaweed worldwide, with the highest annual output among all seaweeds. The S. japonica genome has not been sequenced and only a few ESTs are deposited in public databases, making genome-wide experimental biology study of this important economic species unavailable. We sequenced Saccharina japonica transcriptome using high throughput Solexa sequencing technology.We the assembled transcriptome provide a foundation for the molecular genetics and functional genomics research of this species.