The phrase "an initial step of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the first action or phase in a process or plan.
Example: "An initial step of conducting research is essential before developing the project further."
Alternatives: "a preliminary step of" or "an introductory step of".
We also considered whether any possible prior adhesion of human monocytes to endothelial cells, as an initial step of migration, could initiate the translocation of HIF-1α into the nucleus.
Making use of meganucleases, TALENs, or CRISPR/Cas9-based tools requires an initial step of pre-screening to determine the efficiency and specificity of the designed tools.
It is in such environments where an initial step of noise filtering and reduction of data set size plays a fundamental role.
PCR was performed with an initial step of denaturation at 50 °C for 2 mins, 95 °C for 10 mins followed by 40 cycles of 95 °C for 20 s and 60 °C for 20 s.
As an initial step of incorporating post-translational modifications into combinatorial libraries, we present a bacterial co-expression system, utilizing a recently characterized calmodulin methyltransferase (CaM KMT), to trimethylate a combinatorial library of the calmodulin central linker region.
It is suggested that ELYS, a nucleoporin, binds to chromatin in an initial step of postmitotic NPC assembly and subsequently recruits the essential Y-subcomplex, the major scaffolding unit of the NPC.
Human waste is channelled into a septic tank and undergoes an initial step of sedimentation and anaerobic digestion.
For this scheme with informed users, we have an initial step of DL training so the length of the data phase reduces to.
In this regard, exploration of how female workers in blue-collar occupations are communicated in the media is highly needed as an initial step of resolving the issue.
Even among philosophers of discovery, the predominant view has long been that there is an initial step of discovery that is best described as a "eureka moment", a mysterious intuitive leap of the human mind that cannot be analyzed further.
The thermal cycling conditions used were an initial step of 2 min at 50°C and 10 min at 95°C followed by 40 cycles of 15 sec at 95°C and 1 min at 60°C.
