# Preparing SILVA132 for QIIME1/2 Use **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/preparing-silva132-for-qiime1-2-use/2237 **Category:** Silva **Tags:** taxonomy, feature-classifier, silva **Created:** [December 15, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/preparing-silva132-for-qiime1-2-use/2237 "2017-12-15T17:10:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![gregcaporaso](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/gregcaporaso/32/17769_2.png) [@gregcaporaso](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/gregcaporaso) #### Post date: [December 18, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/preparing-silva132-for-qiime1-2-use/2237/9 "2017-12-18T18:28:09Z")
Hi all, A few comments on various parts of this conversation: > [@matpich](#): > > a plan to release a Qiime2-ready SILVA132 db sometime soon? We would like to, but on the QIIME 2 side we do rely on those QIIME-compatible Silva files that @William has typically been responsible for creating. > [@William](#): > > I’ll take a look and see if my scripts (and Mike Robeson’s, which handle a lot of the taxonomy parsing) can be readily modified to a plugin. @William, I would be happy to try to help you and @SoilRotifer with this. It would be great if we could figure out how to automate this process, which would be easier if we had this functionality accessible in a QIIME 2 plugin. As a side note, if your current processing workflow requires QIIME 1 for some steps, it's possible to install QIIME 1 and QIIME 2 side-by-side in different conda environments. If you already have QIIME 2 installed, you should be able to follow the [QIIME 1 conda installation steps](http://qiime.org/install/install.html#installing-qiime-on-mac-os-x-and-linux-using-miniconda) to get a working QIIME 1 base install. If the steps you need from QIIME 1 are focused on OTU clustering, QIIME 2 does now offer similar functionality (see [here](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/clustering-sequences-into-otus-using-q2-vsearch/1348)). Please let me know what I can do to help in this process. It would be really great to get some trained classifiers for Silva 132 posted for use with QIIME 2. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/preparing-silva132-for-qiime1-2-use/2237)._