Dataset for sequencing and assembly of the European endangered white-clawed crayfish () abdominal muscle transcriptome.

The white-clawed crayfish () is an endangered species in Europe with limited genomic information. Despite its conservation status there is no transcriptomic data available for in public databases. The data here represents the first transcriptome profile of the white-clawed crayfish generated using Illumina stranded RNA sequencing. Pair-end reads were assembled with three separate transcriptome assemblers (Trinity, RNABloom, and RNASpades) followed by transcript assembly reduction and gene reconstruction using the EvidentialGene pipeline. The transcriptome was functionally annotated using InterProScan and genes coding for carbohydrate-active enzymes were identified through the dbCAN2 server. Raw fastq reads and the final version of the transcriptome assembly have been deposited in the NCBI-SRA (SRR10549898) and NCBI-TSA (GICG01) databases.