ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment

Summary: ZOO is a desktop experiment management environment backed by an object‑oriented DB server for on‑desk scientific workflows. It outlines architecture and core components—the experiment manager and inter‑module communication—and reports early uses in plant growth and NMR experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8350
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 8.2832102e-05
Overall Rank: 2,695 | 81.26%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
168	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00038946305
2,604	GridDB: A Data-Centric Overlay for Scientific Grids	2004	VLDB	8.4647212e-05
4,768	The Virtual Data Grid: A New Model and Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaboration	2003	CIDR	5.9356093e-05
5,393	ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment	1997	SIGMOD	5.5326074e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
292	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00028741386
743	Characteristics of Scientific Databases	1984	VLDB	0.00017348417
1,332	Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies	1991	SIGMOD	0.00012531626
12,818	OPOSSUM: Desk-Top Schema Management through Customizable Visualization	1995	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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