diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 023639c5360aab7516e9560707fdd716e57613c7..acf9e478f8eb000ab672dfa504840da18d7b3bc8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         <spring-data-jpa.version>1.10.11.RELEASE</spring-data-jpa.version>
         <spring-boot-starter-actuator.version>1.4.7.RELEASE</spring-boot-starter-actuator.version>
         <aspectjweaver.version>1.8.9</aspectjweaver.version>
-        <woken-messages.version>2.4.8</woken-messages.version>
+        <woken-messages.version>2.4.9</woken-messages.version>
         <javax-inject.version>1</javax-inject.version>
         <akka.version>2.5.9</akka.version>
         <spring-context.version>4.3.4.RELEASE</spring-context.version>
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/hbp/mip/controllers/ModelsApi.java b/src/main/java/eu/hbp/mip/controllers/ModelsApi.java
index a383a97e7ae40189dc3813e9ffb0c3eae94dd567..4685056465170049ace7bee3c89268bb0951b70d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/hbp/mip/controllers/ModelsApi.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/hbp/mip/controllers/ModelsApi.java
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 package eu.hbp.mip.controllers;
 
+import ch.chuv.lren.mip.portal.WokenConversions;
+import ch.chuv.lren.woken.messages.query.filters.FilterRule;
 import com.github.slugify.Slugify;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
+import scala.Option;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.*;
@@ -282,12 +285,15 @@ public class ModelsApi {
         allVars.addAll(model.getDataset().getHeader());
         allVars.addAll(model.getDataset().getGrouping());
 
-        String filters = model.getQuery().getFilters();
+        WokenConversions conv = new WokenConversions();
+        String filtersJson = model.getQuery().getFilters();
+        Option<FilterRule> filters = conv.toFilterRule(filtersJson);
+        String filtersSQL = conv.toSqlWhere(filters);
 
         Gson gson = new Gson();
         JsonObject jsonModel = gson.fromJson(gson.toJson(model, Model.class), JsonObject.class);
         jsonModel.get("dataset").getAsJsonObject()
-                .add("data", dataUtil.getDataFromVariables(allVars, filters));
+                .add("data", dataUtil.getDataFromVariables(allVars, filtersSQL));
 
         return gson.fromJson(jsonModel, Model.class);
     }
diff --git a/src/main/scala/ch.chuv.lren/mip/portal/WokenConversions.scala b/src/main/scala/ch.chuv.lren/mip/portal/WokenConversions.scala
index 1b773335b4a12672f84ffb2212928a18d4d95bf1..a6b695e05f9828c0eb9f7593311c93356e42ad1d 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/ch.chuv.lren/mip/portal/WokenConversions.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/ch.chuv.lren/mip/portal/WokenConversions.scala
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package ch.chuv.lren.mip.portal
 import eu.hbp.mip.model.Variable
 import ch.chuv.lren.woken.messages.datasets.DatasetId
 import ch.chuv.lren.woken.messages.query.filters.FilterRule
+import ch.chuv.lren.woken.messages.query.filters.FilterRule._
 import ch.chuv.lren.woken.messages.query.filters.queryFiltersProtocol._
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component
 import spray.json._
@@ -20,4 +21,6 @@ class WokenConversions {
   def toDatasets(datasets: java.util.List[Variable]): Set[DatasetId] =
     datasets.asScala.map(v => DatasetId(v.getCode)).toSet
 
+  def toSqlWhere(filter: Option[FilterRule]): String = filter.fold("")(_.toSqlWhere)
+
 }