# Downloading files from QIITA to import into QIIME2 - q about generating rep-seqs.qza

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**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/downloading-files-from-qiita-to-import-into-qiime2-q-about-generating-rep-seqs-qza/1421 "2017-10-05T18:21:34Z")
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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/downloading-files-from-qiita-to-import-into-qiime2-q-about-generating-rep-seqs-qza/1421/2 "2017-10-06T04:42:26Z")

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Hi @jessicalmetcalf! You can use the new [`q2-vsearch`](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.9/plugins/available/vsearch/) method [`dereplicate-sequences`](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.9/plugins/available/vsearch/dereplicate-sequences/) to convert your `seqs.fna` file to a `FeatureTable[Frequency]` and `FeatureData[Sequence]`! Check out @gregcaporaso's [draft community tutorial on `q2-vsearch`](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/draft-clustering-sequences-into-otus-using-q2-vsearch/1348), in particular, the section titled "Dereplicating a SampleData[Sequences] artifact."

Once you have those two new artifacts, you could either perform OTU clustering (see the rest of that draft tutorial), or continue on with [generating summaries](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.9/tutorials/moving-pictures/#featuretable-and-featuredata-summaries).

Hope that helps!

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