diff --git a/c3/qiskit/c3_backend.py b/c3/qiskit/c3_backend.py
index 2d600dd1..960f1d0f 100644
--- a/c3/qiskit/c3_backend.py
+++ b/c3/qiskit/c3_backend.py
@@ -574,9 +574,6 @@ def run_experiment(self, experiment: QasmQobjExperiment) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         ]
         exp.evaluate_qasm([instructions_list])
 
-        # convert qasm instruction set to c3 sequence
-        sequence = get_sequence(experiment.instructions)  # noqa
-
         # TODO get_init_ground_state(), compute_propagators(), evaluate(), process()
 
         # generate shots style readout with no SPAM