# Filtering features Low expression genes may be indistinguishable from noise and will decrease the sensitivity of differential expression analysis. * Click the **Gene counts** node * Click **Filtering** in the task menu * Click **Filter features** (Figure 1)

Figure 1. Selecting Filter features

* Click **Noise reduction filter** * Set the filter to **maximum <= 1** * Click **Finish** (Figure 2)

Figure 2. Filtering low expressed genes

A new Filtered counts data node will be created to que additional tasks (Figure 3) like Normalization.

Figure 3. Filtered counts node

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