At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Atul Butte gave a talk entitled, “Translational Medical Discoveries Through Data Transparency and Reuse.” It could just as easily been called “how to run a successful research lab without having a lab.” Butte, who is faculty at Stanford, was part of a panel that discussed the open sharing of data, and he used his own experience to provide a compelling case study that showed that, when researchers share their data, it enables others to drive a field forward in new ways.