I have to deal with huge amount of illumina data for transcriptome of a non - model organism. I am not very sure what tools or software I should use for assembly and annotation? My basic aim is to create a de novo reference for the same.
Trinity would be a good start to assemble a transcriptome. Beware you will need a server with plenty of RAM to run this. For annotation, is it prokaryote or eukaryote? The MAKER pipeline is known for eukaryotes, but there are plenty of choices.
I agree with Johnathan. Trinity is always my first choice. If the dataset is really huge and your RAM is not enough, run the digital normalization (diginorm) script that is in the Trinity package. It will discard reads based on its constituint k-mer frequencies in the whole dataset. This way, you reduce the coverage of highly covered transcripts (and, as a bonus, the errors they contain). The diginorm procedure will not discard reads whose kmers frequencies are bellow the threshold, so low-coverage transcripts are preserved. The RAM requirements after diginorm are significantly lower. Surprisingly, almost all assemblies benefit from diginorm.