diff --git a/app/clickhouse/rep/SeqRep.scala b/app/clickhouse/rep/SeqRep.scala
index 9481edb8..dd62109c 100644
--- a/app/clickhouse/rep/SeqRep.scala
+++ b/app/clickhouse/rep/SeqRep.scala
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ sealed abstract class SeqRep[T, C[_]](val from: String) {
 }
 
 object SeqRep {
+  // TODO: might need to be deleted in next release 25.x.x. This is no longer needed due to update in the driver
   def parseFastString(str: String): String = str.slice(1, str.length - 1)
 
   sealed abstract class NumSeqRep[T](override val from: String, val f: String => T)(implicit
diff --git a/app/models/entities/Associations.scala b/app/models/entities/Associations.scala
index 7331ded4..8bf95be9 100644
--- a/app/models/entities/Associations.scala
+++ b/app/models/entities/Associations.scala
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ object Associations {
           tuples1,
           tuple => {
             val tokens = tuple.split(",")
-            val left = parseFastString(tokens(0))
+            val left = tokens(0)
             val right = tokens(1).toDouble
             ScoredComponent(left, right)
           }
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ object Associations {
           tuples2,
           tuple => {
             val tokens = tuple.split(",")
-            val left = parseFastString(tokens(0))
+            val left = tokens(0)
             val right = tokens(1).toDouble
             ScoredComponent(left, right)
           }