The painstaking process of collecting and curating data is at the heart of scientific progress. What happens in the lab over weeks, months, and years can lead to new treatments, new medications, and sometimes, new cures for disease. But when a researcher makes her data available to others so they can test new hypotheses or re-analyze the data, her initial contribution can get lost or buried. Work done in collaboration with others may mean a researcher is listed as an author on a second publication.