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The whole transcriptome sequencing of sesame using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology to obtain the comprehensive transcriptome profile of sesame. A total of 16,612 transcripts were resulted from de novo assembly with N50 value of 905bp. 16,548 unigenes were predicted from the transcripts and functionally annotated. Based on Nr annotation, 15, 438 unigenes were assigned a total of 58 gene ontology (GO) terms in three ontologies namely, biological process (23 GO terms), molecular function (16 GO terms) and cellular component (19 GO terms).