Why carry out this study?

Interpretation of the knowledge domain of diseases needs a semantic tool to retrieve information from evidence.

There is a lack of ontological representation of the stroke knowledge domain.

In this study, we developed the stroke ontology (STO), to capture and organize the stroke knowledge domain in a standard way.

What was learned from the study?

The STO enables researchers of the stroke domain to capture the knowledge stored in the high-dimensional biomedical repositories and databases.