# Is it valid to rename ASVs classified as ‘uncultivated’ as ‘unclassified’?

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/is-it-valid-to-rename-asvs-classified-as-uncultivated-as-unclassified/32652
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** taxonomy
**Created:** [March 1, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/is-it-valid-to-rename-asvs-classified-as-uncultivated-as-unclassified/32652 "2025-03-01T05:10:30Z")
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### Author: ![SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/soilrotifer/32/21071_2.png) [@SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/SoilRotifer)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/is-it-valid-to-rename-asvs-classified-as-uncultivated-as-unclassified/32652/6 "2025-03-03T20:43:55Z")

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Hi @DavidRivera,

You can try using use RESCRIPt's [qiime rescript edit-taxonomy ...](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/processing-filtering-and-evaluating-the-silva-database-and-other-reference-sequence-data-with-rescript/15494#heading--sixteenth-header) action to relabel the taxonomy.

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