There is a growing trend to include Docker (or Singularity, which is more compatible with HPC architectures common in bioinformatics) images alongside codes. In particular, AlphaFold 2 does provide a Dockerfile, and they even include a Python "launcher script" hiding all the details of running the code.
Sadly, this is very uncommon in the community. In a bioinformatics meeting, the sentence "I spent X days setting up Y software" will not raise many eyebrows
I work in power systems, and the situation is similar. Maybe worse because paper authors often come up with new computational techniques but don’t implement them in code (much less code with a dockerfile).
I look with much jealousy over at the computer science field where papers often include code, multiple versions under version control, automated tests, setup/docker scripts, and demonstration workflows and interfaces.
Sadly, this is very uncommon in the community. In a bioinformatics meeting, the sentence "I spent X days setting up Y software" will not raise many eyebrows