# Do I need to generate new rep-seqs after filtering?

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/do-i-need-to-generate-new-rep-seqs-after-filtering/2297
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** filtering
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/do-i-need-to-generate-new-rep-seqs-after-filtering/2297 "2017-12-21T01:01:23Z")
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### Author: ![ebolyen](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/ebolyen/32/11_2.png) [@ebolyen](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/ebolyen)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/do-i-need-to-generate-new-rep-seqs-after-filtering/2297/3 "2017-12-22T18:35:20Z")

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Hey @bmillerlab!

It won't really matter, you just may end up annotations for sequences you don't really have in your feature-table anymore. This shouldn't pose any actual problems downstream.

But! If you would like to remove these now redundant sequences, `feature-table filter-seqs` now accepts a feature table in the latest release: [QIIME 2 2017.12](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2017-12-release-is-now-live/2308)!

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