The phrase "a basic tool of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a fundamental instrument or resource in a particular context or field.
Example: "In digital marketing, social media is a basic tool of engagement with the audience."
Alternatives: "an essential instrument of" or "a fundamental resource of".
Analogy is a basic tool of teaching.
Stop-and-frisk is such a basic tool of policing.
Some people, though, are concerned that a corporation is playing such a large role in providing a basic tool of the public school curriculum.
The court on Thursday held that human DNA was a "product of nature", a basic tool of scientific and technological work, thereby placing it beyond the domain of patent protection.
Manipulating such a basic tool of human communication, he said, "separates the voice from the kinds of emotions you might normally associate with it, so it becomes more emotionally ambiguous; it means there's more interpretive space given the listener".
It should become a basic tool of structural bioinformatics.
A heat transfer analysis of the electrowinning cell was conducted to develop a basic tool for designing of the engineering-scale electrowinner.
A basic tool for derivation of Kalman filtering equations for pointwise delayed white noises, used in [11, 13], is an approximation of a white noise by wide band noises.
Furthermore, we clarified the fundamental and basic aspects of the solute release mechanism from pDNA hydrogels and the significance of this information is enormous as a basic tool for the formulation of pDNA carriers for drug/gene delivery applications.
The so-called First Recursion Theorem (Odifreddi, 1989, II.3.15) provides a basic tool to compute values of functions which are solutions to recursive equations, implicitly defining functions by circular definitions involving the function itself.
We expect that our optimized ethanol-fixation protocol will serve as a basic tool for molecular analysis of frozen tissues.
