"divergent positions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to two or more opinions or beliefs that are in opposition to one another. For example, "The two sides of the debate had divergent positions on the proposed legislation."
Divergent positions for the snap frozen versus FFPE comparison could be stratified into false positive and false negative, assuming the snap frozen preparation as reference.
Environmental groups have taken wildly divergent positions on the issue.
The gap between these two strongly divergent positions proved unbridgeable and the negotiations foundered.
"There are these divergent positions, and when we have to get agreement, that agreement is difficult".
The summit collapsed not only because the players came from increasingly divergent positions but also because none of them had the power to impose a solution.
Both conservative and liberal Anglican advocates who traveled to London to monitor the meeting said they saw the statement as a hopeful endorsement of their widely divergent positions.
In insects, Nme7 proteins also displayed specific domain structure (Figure 4B) resulting in a divergent position of the corresponding group in the phylogenetic tree (Figure 4A).
The ul34 and ul35 genes are in a divergent position with ul37.
(Florida) showed the most divergent position in the phylogenies inferred from SSU rDNA sequences and clustered strongly with environmental sequences.
Our RNA expression profiling results confirmed the divergent position of MCF-7-ATCC cells, which clustered with at some distance of other MCF-7 sublines.
The most divergent species within the family Rickettsiaceae are also predominantly associated with protists (Diophrys appendiculata, Haplosporidium sp etc)., and occupy the most divergent position in the phylogeny of vectors.
