The Hearing Impairment Ontology: A Tool for Unifying Hearing Impairment Knowledge to Enhance Collaborative Research

Capture the full scope of variation to improve health care, equity and medical research globally.

We present the Hearing Impairment Ontology (HIO), built upon the SCDO framework. The HIO was compiled by a working group, which includes HI and ontology experts, who defined, in detail, essential aspects of the HI knowledge domain (e.g., phenotypes, genetics, therapeutics, diagnostics, etc.) and how these aspects are related. To date, this developing HIO represents the most comprehensive standardized HI domain knowledge portal, which will allow for the application of ontology-driven mining approaches for the identification of pertinent research questions.