diff --git a/build-fail-blacklist b/build-fail-blacklist
index 504f765365ef3..995eabd6756e3 100644
--- a/build-fail-blacklist
+++ b/build-fail-blacklist
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-recipes/bowtie2/2.2.1
-recipes/bowtie2/2.2.4
-recipes/bowtie2/2.2.5
 # The build string needs to be modified to account for the [nocairo] feature
 recipes/genometools-genometools/1.5.10-nocairo