# Importing 454 raw reads

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-454-raw-reads/2469
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** pending-development, 454, import
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-454-raw-reads/2469 "2018-01-08T16:05:20Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-454-raw-reads/2469/5 "2018-01-08T20:44:38Z")

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The vsearch OTU clustering pipeline (see [this tutorial](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/clustering-sequences-into-otus-using-q2-vsearch/1348)) should work for 454 data.

The only issue I see is that there would be no 454-specific denoising steps. You could perform denoising steps with qiime1 first, then import the denoised fasta data into QIIME2 for clustering and downstream analysis.

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