Open data and data sharing is one of the key components of the reproducible science movement. Some teams have even gone so far as to share their entire virtual

Open data and data sharing is one of the key components of the reproducible science movement. Some teams have even gone so far as to share their entire virtual image with data, code, and associated libraries (when data size is small). Docker would be a great choice for this, and some teams have moved to that as well from what I hear. This is definitely NOT the majority, but I think the people who take the extra effort to help other researchers "stand on their shoulders" should be commended. However, in the era of "big data research", it is not always possible to share the data openly due to public file server size limitations.