Introduction Ontology-based annotation of evidence, using disease-specific ontologies, can
accelerate analysis and interpretation of the knowledge domain of diseases. Although many
domain-specific disease ontologies have been developed so far, in the area of
cardiovascular diseases, there is a lack of ontological representation of the disease
knowledge domain of stroke. Methods The stroke ontology (STO) was created on the basis
of the ontology development life cycle and was built using Protégé ontology editor in the …

Introduction: Ontology-based annotation of evidence, using disease-specific ontologies, can
accelerate analysis and interpretation of the knowledge domain of diseases. Although many
domain-specific disease ontologies have been developed so far, in the area of
cardiovascular diseases, there is a lack of ontological representation of the disease
knowledge domain of stroke. Methods: The stroke ontology (STO) was created on the basis
of the ontology development life cycle and was built using Protégé ontology editor in the …