The phrase "although initially developed for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to introduce a contrast or a change in purpose regarding the development of something.
Example: "Although initially developed for educational purposes, the software has since been adapted for commercial use."
Alternatives: "even though originally created for" or "despite being first designed for".
Although initially developed for small-sized software development, recent studies focus on scaling Agile Project Management (APM) practices for larger projects and complex, physical product architectures.
Although initially developed for nuclear submarines, American civil nuclear power centred on the compact pressurised water reactors (PWRs), a development that Seaborg supported.
Although initially developed for sediment samples, the model is not limited in its application; it can also be used to approximate any other multimodal continuous distribution function.
Although initially developed for inferring the history of single lineages ("taxon biogeography"), DIVA and other event-based methods can be used to infer general biogeographic patterns by summarizing frequencies of dispersal and vicariance events across multiple groups distributed in the same set of areas.
Other agents have emerged, although initially developed for other diseases, which might be useful for the prevention of breast cancer in high-risk women.
Although initially developed for monitoring artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), the method has since been adapted for use in HIV/AIDS treatment programmes and is now being considered for use in tuberculosis control programmes [ 5– 7].
Although not initially developed for this purpose, it is possible to use gene expression microarray data for the detection of copy number abnormalities.
Although it was initially developed for the purification of petrochemicals, the advances that this technology has experienced during more than 50 years of existence were at the basis of its successful expansion into the food and pharmaceuticals industries.
Although the tool was initially developed for ChEBI, it is applicable to any ontology.
Secondly, although the method was initially developed for an imaging system with a small NA as discussed in the Algorithm session, it should be applicable, in principle, to a large NA imaging system as well.
In conclusion, although the PSQI instrument was initially developed for psychiatric practice and research, our study provides additional evidence that it has good psychometric properties and excellent comparability of score results with other published studies for different patient populations.
