diff --git a/scripts/generate-manifest.js b/scripts/generate-manifest.js
index d54c170b..10938e47 100644
--- a/scripts/generate-manifest.js
+++ b/scripts/generate-manifest.js
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ const path = require('path');
 const { listModelFilesAsync, parseMetadataYaml , safeJoin} = require('./utils');
 
 const SEARCH_ROOTS = ['Published', 'Examples', 'Tutorials'];
-const DEFAULT_IGNORE_DIRS = ['fitting', 'BioNetFit_files', 'output_*', 'fit_*', '__pycache__', 'pybnf_files'];
 
 function parseArgs(argv) {
   let root = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');