# I wonder what you suggest when sequence quality drops off markedly before the R1 and R2 reads will overlap

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/i-wonder-what-you-suggest-when-sequence-quality-drops-off-markedly-before-the-r1-and-r2-reads-will-overlap/20542
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**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/i-wonder-what-you-suggest-when-sequence-quality-drops-off-markedly-before-the-r1-and-r2-reads-will-overlap/20542 "2021-08-24T16:11:42Z")
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### 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: [August 25, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/i-wonder-what-you-suggest-when-sequence-quality-drops-off-markedly-before-the-r1-and-r2-reads-will-overlap/20542/2 "2021-08-25T12:48:33Z")

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An off-topic reply has been merged into an existing topic: [Seleting trunc length to allow Dada2 merge](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/seleting-trunc-length-to-allow-dada2-merge/20528/12)

Please keep replies on-topic in the future.

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