# Importing FASTA file

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-fasta-file/3035
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** import
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-fasta-file/3035 "2018-02-14T15:47:20Z")
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### Author: ![Dorothy](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/dorothy/32/16034_2.png) [@Dorothy](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Dorothy)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-fasta-file/3035/3 "2018-02-15T15:46:29Z")

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Hi,

Did you try the following command?

qiime tools import   
--input-path sequences.fna   
--output-path sequences.qza   
--type 'FeatureData[Sequence]'

If you have separate fasta file and quality file you can convert them to fastq file first using QIIME1 script

convert\_fastaqual\_fastq.py -f seqs.fna -q seqs.qual -o fastq\_files/

If you have different naming of the files than the standard format, check out #“Fastq manifest”# formats [Importing data — QIIME 2 2017.12.0 documentation](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.12/tutorials/importing/)

kind regards,  
Dorothy

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