diff --git a/tests/docker/config/search/construct-query.sparql b/tests/docker/config/search/construct-query.sparql
index c38445cde5..c1c3b7ecf7 100644
--- a/tests/docker/config/search/construct-query.sparql
+++ b/tests/docker/config/search/construct-query.sparql
@@ -267,12 +267,6 @@ CONSTRUCT {
   FILTER (?type != schema:Dataset)
   FILTER (?type != prov:Entity)
 
-  # for Traces, only consider ones that have the nwb encoding format
-  OPTIONAL {
-        ?id a bmo:ExperimentalTrace .
-        FILTER EXISTS {?id schema:distribution/schema:encodingFormat "application/nwb"} .
-  } .
-
   ?id  nxv:createdAt   ?createdAt      ;
        nxv:createdBy   ?createdByNode  ;
        nxv:updatedAt   ?updatedAt      ;