We constructed eight paired-end libraries with insert sizes of 170 base pairs (bp), 500 bp, 800 bp, 2 kb, 5 kb, 10 kb, 20 kb and 40 kb and generated a total of 98.22 Gb sequence data (Additional file 1: Table S1, NCBI Project number PRJNA305960, SRA number SRA319445) on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform.