"initiate the development" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing the beginning or start of a process or project. It often implies taking action to create or improve something. Example: The company decided to initiate the development of a new product line in order to expand their market reach.
Results of microarray experiments on Mycobacterium tuberculosis were used to develop and evaluate the visualization tool and initiate the development of an inference system for gene interactions based on such data.
Furthermore, this exercise will offer a general framework and a comprehensive instrument, which could initiate the development of palliative sedation guidelines for associations/countries that are yet to develop or adopt one.
These data support the hypothesis that the MMR gene mutation carriers may have been predisposed to develop these particular breast cancers; that is, MMR gene mutations may initiate the development of breast cancer (as a driver) or accelerate carcinogenesis in breast cancers that occur in MMR gene mutation carriers (as an accelerator).
(With Dale W. Jorgenson and J. Steven Landefelt) A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts brings together a distinguished group of contributors to initiate the development of a comprehensive and fully integrated set of United States national accounts.
It is suggested that incorrectly repaired DNA damage may be lethal in terms of cellular reproduction and also may initiate the development of mutations or transformations in surviving cells.
Although there was a reduction in the number and severity of hyperplastic lesions, the endometrial phenotype persisted, suggesting that Pten mutation, independent of estrogen, can initiate the development of complex atypical hyperplasia.
We believe that scientists and engineers who follow this important technology will be aided if they had some structure to guide them, and this paper represents our attempt to initiate the development of such guidelines.
Although genetic research in these forests is still limited, enough knowledge exists to initiate the development of practical management guidelines e.g. on minimum population densities as a precondition for logging or documentation of sources of propagation material used in enrichment planting.
The purpose of this study was to test whether a quantitative high-throughput molecular screen can be used to probe human endometrium and initiate the development of molecular diagnostic tools with potential for identification of therapeutic targets in women with menstrual complaints.
From first principles, we initiate the development of a mathematical theory of stochastic microlensing.
Thus, if the DNA damage is not repaired correctly, mutations will be induced and may initiate the development of CRC.
