"Initial prediction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the first prediction made before any evidence or further information has been gathered. For example: - Our team made an initial prediction about the outcome of the project, but it ended up being drastically different due to unforeseen challenges. - The weather forecasters' initial prediction was for a mild winter, but now they are anticipating a much colder season. - The company's initial prediction for sales this quarter was exceeded by 50%, leading to record profits.
Initial prediction of transmembrane (TM) domain was carried out using program TMHMM ("Prediction of transmembrane helices in proteins"; TMHMM Server v. 2.0, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark).
The initial prediction from the first network and the predicted secondary structure using PSIPRED [ 11, 12] are used as input to the second structure-structure network to refine the prediction obtained from the first network.
The main advantage of the initial prediction from transcript sequences is that the predicted annotation will have intron boundaries that agree exactly with the intron boundaries in the transcripts to genome alignment.
The initial prediction result indicated that the established model could predict the hot cracking rate adequately within the range of welding parameters being used.
The self-training model is defined as the weighted averages of the di-codon frequencies derived from the predicted genes, and from the regression models used for the initial prediction.
This was based on Mr. Roth's initial prediction that his treated beef could kill E. coli in any meat it was mixed with.
That is many fewer than the initial prediction by the fund's administrator, Kenneth R. Feinberg, that 90 to 95percentt of the families would take part.
We are talking about an increase of about twenty per cent in spending per person as opposed to the initial prediction of more than sixty per cent.
Research has also shown that hindsight bias is likely due to memory errors (such as errors in recalling the initial prediction) and fixating on the eventual outcome.
New Prediction: We now realize the initial prediction was predicated on several faulty, but at the time, reasonably concluded assumptions: that dozens of young entrepreneurs would "digitize" all forms of matter, including gasoline, athletic equipment and scents; that automobiles could be folded into hand-held devices conveniently carried into a home-office full-service island for a fill-up.
The operation, which involved 500 workers of 26 nationalities and was widely viewed as the most challenging part of a salvage plan whose costs have already topped €600m (£500m) and are likely to rise, lasted 19 hours – well over the initial prediction.
