# converting pacbio **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/converting-pacbio/30190 **Category:** Ideas and Suggestions **Created:** [May 13, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/converting-pacbio/30190 "2024-05-13T15:45:02Z") **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: [May 13, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/converting-pacbio/30190/2 "2024-05-13T16:47:54Z")
Hi Alexander, Sure, ya' can. The challenge will be that the Pacbio reads will be longer, so you have different regions. Most (all?) amplicon analysis pipelines are predicated on sequencing the _same_ region, so this is a huge challenge! Try [searching the forums for "multiple regions"](https://forum.qiime2.org/search?q=multiple%20regions) to find threads [like this](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/using-multiple-16s-variable-regions-for-analysis/28833) that gives some practical places to start. I would simply treat these as two different data sets. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/converting-pacbio/30190)._