The phrase "a step to align" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or measures taken to achieve agreement or coordination among different parties or elements.
Example: "We need to take a step to align our goals with the company's vision for the upcoming year."
Alternatives: "an action to synchronize" or "a measure to coordinate".
Like the original TopHat, potential splice sites are detected within candidate alignment locations, and used in a subsequent step to align reads spanning exon-junctions.
Our approach thereby represents a first step to align decisions regarding the transformation towards sustainability with the paradigm of value-based management, taking into account the ambiguous role of the economic dimension in business context.
The general approach to identifying gene fusions involves an initial step to identify candidate fusion gene pairs based on discordant mappings between the ends of paired-end reads, and then a second step to align reads to exon-exon junctions between the candidate gene pairs.
In each strand of r GGAGGUUUUGGAGG), two sets of successive turns in the GGAGG segments and turns at both ends of the UUUU loops drive four G-G steps to align in a parallel manner, a core with two stacked G-tetrads being formed.
As a result, we are taking proactive steps to align our businesses practices with the economic realities that we will face in 2009.
The most successful organizations take steps to align the business with leadership development, creating a strong pipeline that understands what it is now, what it wants to be, and how to get there.
By 1991, even Exxon began to take steps to align the Exxon Education Foundation with the company's strategies.
"We must take painful, yet necessary, steps to align our work force and operations with our path forward".
For the pharmaceutical company, this might involve taking steps to align the objectives of the animal-testing unit with those of the discovery unit.
To date, the United States has taken only small steps to align its foreign policy toward Africa.
