The phrase "a useful input" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to information or data that is helpful or beneficial in a particular context or situation.
Example: "The feedback from the team was a useful input for improving our project strategy."
Alternatives: "a valuable contribution" or "a helpful suggestion".
Knowledge of the nature conservation value of agricultural land provides a useful input to land-use planning.
Disclosure of the Australian CEO pay ratio would be a useful input to that discussion.
Our resulting distributions provide a useful input into climate policy discussions.
So this is a useful input of theory into empirical science.
Recognising fingerwriting in mid-air is a useful input tool for wearable egocentric camera.
Finally, the role of forecast uncertainty was evaluated, indicating that even limited information on soil or climate can be a useful input to management decisions.
Thus, the study would provide an useful input to concerned authority that water demand management is as important as water supply management and that the former is highly required to complement additional water supply in the context of growing demand and dwindling resource.
Although a causal relationship between magnetic fields and childhood leukemia has not been established, we present estimates of the possible pubic health impact using attributable fractions to provide a potentially useful input into policy analysis under different scenarios.
Despite the time and efforts required to complete the AFS school self-assessment, all schools found the AFS SSA process a very useful input to the development of SIPs.
The European Commission communication has been a very useful input to the debates on the precautionary principle, and it has helped initiate what the Commission stressed was "not the last word" but was, rather, the point of departure for a broader study of the conditions in which risks should be assessed, appraised, managed, and communicated.
In the future, ChIP-seq quality assessment similar to that used here could guide experimentalists at early stages in a study, provide useful input in the publication process, and be used to stratify ChIP-seq data for different community-wide uses.
