# Sequence and taxonomy files for Silva v138.2

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/sequence-and-taxonomy-files-for-silva-v138-2/33475
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**Created:** [July 21, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/sequence-and-taxonomy-files-for-silva-v138-2/33475 "2025-07-21T06:22:50Z")
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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: [July 21, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/sequence-and-taxonomy-files-for-silva-v138-2/33475/3 "2025-07-21T13:06:18Z")

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Hi @Laura_R,

If you download the files on that page, you can then use [QIIME 2 View](https://view.qiime2.org/), to look at the provenance information. The provenance says `138'` not `138.1` or `138.2`. I recommend you follow the tutorial that @Julio linked above and construct your own classifier. You can pick the steps you'd like to use during construction.

For example, here is one [quick way](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/training-silva-132-classifier-for-qiime2-amplicon-2023-9/29651/10) to make an amplicon specific classifier. Though, I'd likely add the `qiime rescript cull-seqs ...` after the amplicon extraction step.

If you are unable to build the classifier on your machine, checkout this [post](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/cannot-work-silva-taxonomy-in-galaxy/32980/3).

-Mike

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