The phrase "a method of discovering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing techniques or approaches for finding out information or gaining knowledge about a subject.
Example: "The researchers developed a method of discovering new patterns in the data that had previously gone unnoticed."
Alternatives: "a technique for uncovering" or "an approach to finding".
Feb. 7, 2011 4:15 p.m. Using mathematical concepts, Princeton researchers have developed a method of discovering new drugs for a range of diseases by calculating which physical properties of biological molecules may predict their effectiveness as medicines.
The term can be understood in two ways, either in a wide sense as a method of presenting existing knowledge, which he prefers to call an order (ordo) of presentation, or in a narrow sense as a method of discovering knowledge, for which he reserves method (methodus) in its proper understanding.
Even in his early tracts it was clear to Bacon that he had to seek a method of discovering the right forms, the most well known of which was heat (Novum Organum II, Aph. XI XII) or "the famous trial investigation of the form of heat" (Rees 2000, 66; see Bacon IV [1901], 154 5).
A keynote by Zhiping Weng (University of Massachusetts Medical School) introduced Factorbook [ 30], a de novo motif discovery analysis performed on ENCODE data; and Stephen Kwok-Wing Thei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) presented a method of discovering Protein-DNA binding sites using association rule mining [ 31]. miRNA was another topic addressed by multiple talks.
Memory analysis is a premier method of discovering volatile digital forensic information.
Principal component analysis (PCA) was used here as a numerical method of discovering variables that are more important than others for representing parameter variation and identifying hydrogeochemical processes.
A simple method of discovering 'possible' relationships is to find instances of sentences or abstracts in which groups or pairs of entities co-occur [ 13, 14].
Software-based view path tracking appears to be a useful method of discovering WSI viewing behavior and investigating decision making process of dental students who take a practical exam in oral pathology.
Observing differential expressions of one or more genes between normal and abnormal cells has been a mainstream method of discovering pertinent genes in diseases and therefore valuable drug targets.
Compensatory evolution offers an easy method of discovering genome interactions among specific elements that does not rest on an a priori knowledge of those elements or their interactions.
This scenario, which also holds for spherical refractive error (Solouki et al. 2010; Hysi et al. 2010; Verhoeven et al. 2013b; Kiefer et al. 2013), suggests that substantially increasing the sample size of GWAS meta-analyses will be an effective method of discovering new variants, albeit with increasingly diminishing returns (Lango Allen et al. 2010).
