# Are there any tools that automatically detect where to truncate forward and reverse reads for 16S (DADA2)?

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**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/are-there-any-tools-that-automatically-detect-where-to-truncate-forward-and-reverse-reads-for-16s-dada2/23832 "2022-08-08T21:53:33Z")
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### Author: ![SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/soilrotifer/32/21071_2.png) [@SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/SoilRotifer)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/are-there-any-tools-that-automatically-detect-where-to-truncate-forward-and-reverse-reads-for-16s-dada2/23832/3 "2022-08-09T03:14:07Z")

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Hi @jolespin, welcome to :qiime2:!

The closest thing I can think of is [figaro](https://github.com/Zymo-Research/figaro). There is also this [thread](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/add-figaro-tool-to-optimize-trimming-truncating-parameters-in-dada2/17230).

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