# Importing Datasets
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** import
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481 "2020-02-05T08:59:50Z")
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### Author:  [@divyaprince321](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/divyaprince321)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481/1 "2020-02-05T08:59:50Z")
Hello Dear All
While I am new to Qiime 2, infact a beginner.
I have fasta file data sets with three samples, the data is already demultiplexed.
Please let me know how to import this data and how to combine these sequenes ( while in qiime 1 we were having a command add\_qiime\_labels).
how to do it here
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### Author:  [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481/2 "2020-02-07T19:20:56Z")
Hi @divyaprince321,
> [@divyaprince321](#):
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> while in qiime 1 we were having a command add\_qiime\_labels
There is no equivalent action in QIIME 2. Based on your description of the data, it sounds like some pre-processing (including demultiplexing) has already been done and the data are now in a format that would be difficult to use in QIIME 2 (e.g., all denoising methods in QIIME 2 use fastq data). My recommendation is to either:
1. use OTU clustering or denoising methods outside of QIIME 2, and import as a feature table. E.g., it sounds like you are using a qiime1 workflow currently — you could continue to use qiime1 for clustering etc, then import the OTU table to QIIME 2. See the importing tutorials at [qiime2.org](http://qiime2.org) for details on importing a biom-format OTU table into QIIME 2.
2. import the fastq data into QIIME 2 and perform the analysis from the beginning in QIIME 2. See the importing tutorials at [qiime2.org](http://qiime2.org) to figure out the importing strategy that is most appropriate for your data.
Good luck!
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### Author:  [@divyaprince321](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/divyaprince321)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481/3 "2020-02-08T13:10:55Z")
Thank for your Concerns
Does it mean that in QIIME 2 only fastq files are processed for downstream analysis
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### Author:  [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481/4 "2020-02-08T15:29:06Z")
> [@divyaprince321](#):
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> Does it mean that in QIIME 2 only fastq files are processed for downstream analysis
Not at all. But the denoising methods used in QIIME 2 do require fastq. You can import other data types, e.g., a biom table, but fasta formats are only used for sequences post-denoising.
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481/5 "2020-02-08T22:40:29Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [error when running 'biom convert'](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-running-biom-convert/13547)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-datasets/13481/6 "2020-03-11T04:40:31Z")
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