# Can I turn fasta into qza for taxonomic classification? **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/can-i-turn-fasta-into-qza-for-taxonomic-classification/24346 **Category:** Technical Support **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/can-i-turn-fasta-into-qza-for-taxonomic-classification/24346 "2022-10-04T12:14:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/colinbrislawn/32/6221_2.png) [@colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/colinbrislawn) #### Post date: [October 4, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/can-i-turn-fasta-into-qza-for-taxonomic-classification/24346/2 "2022-10-04T13:16:04Z")
Yes, yes you can. And we have a plugin that will help you prepare your database for use with Qiime2. > [@Processing, filtering, and evaluating the SILVA database (and other reference sequence data) with RESCRIPt](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/processing-filtering-and-evaluating-the-silva-database-and-other-reference-sequence-data-with-rescript/15494): > > construction Please consider this tutorial a living document, which may change based upon community feedback and ongoing plugin development. RESCRIPt [RESCRIPt](https://github.com/bokulich-lab/RESCRIPt) (REference Sequence annotation and CuRatIon Pipeline) is a python package and QIIME 2 plugin for formatting, managing, and manipulating sequence reference databases. This package was designed for compiling, manipulating, and evaluating sequence reference databases from SILVA, NCBI, Greengenes, GTDB, and other sources, and for construc… Not only will that make you fasta file a qza file, it will process it and benchmark it so you know how well it will work! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/can-i-turn-fasta-into-qza-for-taxonomic-classification/24346)._