The phrase "as initially identified" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer back to something that was recognized or pointed out at an earlier time in a discussion or document.
Example: "The issues with the project were as initially identified in the first report, highlighting the need for immediate attention."
Alternatives: "as previously noted" or "as first mentioned".
As mentioned previously, these results also confirmed differential expression of three genes between median and lateral nectaries [orthologs to At1g74820 (cupin family protein), At4g12530 (lipid transfer protein, LTP) and At2g39060 (MtN3)], as initially identified by EST hit number, with a fourth (At1g77110) also being previously confirmed (Ruhlmann and Carter, in preparation).
AS initially identified Amer2 and Amer3 from the database.
Finally, 14 individuals with an equivocal gp-ELISA result were left as initially identified by the EIA method.
All these cities exhibited the same distance decay characteristic of high soil Pb contamination in the inner city and decreasing contamination toward the outer parts of the city as initially identified in garden soils of Baltimore (Mielke et al. 1983).
We further confirmed by qRT-PCR that the two mature forms of miR-342, the 5p and 3p, are both significantly downregulated in the leukocytes from sepsis patients as initially identified by microarray (P=0.001 for miR-342-5p miR-342-5p miR-342-5p2-3p).
We distinguish between individuals that were assigned with the highest score to their sample locality, individuals that were assigned with the highest score to another sample locality from the same population cluster and individuals that were assigned to a sample locality from another population cluster as initially identified by S tructure.
The sequences from 5 control A. dumetorum specimens, as well as one specimen, initially identified as a low confidence A. orinus, clustered with previously sequenced A. dumetorum (Figure 1).
PM2.5 is classified as "fine particulate matter," not "ultrafine" as it was initially identified in this piece.
It is classified as an oncogene and was initially identified as an important causal factor in certain B-cell lymphomas.
The gunman was identified by the military as Eden Natan Zada, 19, though it initially identified him as Eden Tzuberi.
Sibanda was initially identified as a Zimbabwean national, as he was travelling on a forged passport.
