# Quality filter paired end fastq's

**URL:** <https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quality-filter-paired-end-fastqs/1689>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Tags:** paired-end, fastq, quality-filter\
**Created:** [November 1, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quality-filter-paired-end-fastqs/1689 "2017-11-01T14:42:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![jairideout](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jairideout/32/9_2.png) [@jairideout](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jairideout)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quality-filter-paired-end-fastqs/1689/9 "2017-11-30T19:03:45Z")

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The QIIME 2 2017.11 release has expanded support for analyzing paired end reads! See the [paired end reads community tutorial](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/analyzing-paired-end-reads-in-qiime-2/2021) for more details. 🎉

> [@ebolyen](#):
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> We’ve also got some plans to improve trimming/removal of non-biological sequence, so there will probably be a plugin in the near future to more directly address this.

We'll follow up here again when we have more direct support for trimming!

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