The phrase "a starting point for further optimization" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing initial steps or foundations that can be improved upon in a process or project.
Example: "This initial analysis serves as a starting point for further optimization of our marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a foundation for additional enhancement" or "an initial basis for further improvement".
This new scaffold can serve as a starting point for further optimization towards in vivo efficacy.
These results and compounds provide a starting point for further optimization, design, and synthesis of new antiviral agents for this (re)emerging disease.
In conclusion, our study is a proof of concept that chemical cocktails could be used to induce somatic cell reprogramming in vivo and our chemical combination provides a starting point for further optimization to induce cardiac regeneration.
A summary of the performed optimizations and advice on how to adjust code to make it more amenable to optimization is provided as appropriate, and can serve as a starting point for further optimization.
Using the same strategy, an attempt was made to design and synthesize dimeric inhibitors with two neutral-P1 groups in hope to exploit the dimeric binding mode to achieve a starting point for further optimization.
In this approach, the candidate parameter settings recommended by a metalearning algorithm are used a starting point for further optimization using Tabu Search or Particle Swarm Optimization techniques, with great success.
1H 15N chemical shift perturbation NMR was used to confirm the reversible binding and measure the dissociation constant of the most promising compound qualifying it as a high-quality starting point for further optimization.
The result, considered now simply as an arbitrary function on a time grid, is the starting point for further optimization with a gradient-based method that can quickly converge to high fidelities.
First, various homologs were compared to identify the most suitable starting point for further optimization.
Compounds 36 and 52, and various analogues described here, could thus be used as probes further to understand the molecular interactions between S100A10 and AnxA2 and may also serve as potential starting point for further optimization.
If structural analogs of a highly potent cliff partner were detected in subsequent years, the possibility existed that activity cliff information provided a starting point for further compound optimization.
