The phrase "ability to characterize a" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's skill or capacity to describe or define something in detail.
Example: "Her ability to characterize a complex character in the novel made her analysis stand out."
Alternatives: "capacity to describe a" or "skill in defining a".
However, in this paper, the primary equation from the aforementioned model was evaluated for its ability to characterize a thin film's response to temperature.
In an attempt to overcome this limitation, we have developed a simple genotyping procedure by DNA microarrays, and have evaluated its ability to characterize a Sinorhizobium population.
The main advantage of this approach is its largely unbiased ability to characterize a whole proteome or enriched sub-proteome in a single measurement, so that the protein alterations corresponding to a pathological or biochemical condition at a given time can be investigated.
However, absolute risk estimates resulting from these improved models are still limited in their ability to characterize an individual's probability of developing cancer.
HCD and CID resulted in far fewer cleavage sites, and the spectra were dominated by phosphate losses, which limited the ability to characterize lipid A structure by HCD and CID alone.
He does have gifts, chief among them an ability to characterize people with a signature gesture or pose.
We propose that this coordinated approach to in vitro patient-derived iPSC study will enable a greater ability to characterize rare GRD at a cellular level and presents a logical pathway and opportunity for functional validation of genetic variants discovered.
Nevertheless, the more direct, biology-based approach to platelet biomarkers may rest with an ability to characterize them in either a state of interaction with other cells (e.g. platelet-leukocyte aggregates) or transformation (e.g. microparticles), or by analyzing protein/mRNA expression (by proteomics and transcriptomics) [22].
Although the deluge of high-throughput data will most certainly be a formidable challenge for the breast cancer research community, our ability to characterize tumors at an unprecedented level of detail will undoubtedly lead to novel paradigms for stratified medicine and tailored therapies.
GAMs have the ability to characterize nonlinear relationhips between an independent variable and a dependent variable using parametric and nonparametric smoothing functions (Hastie and Tibshirani 1990).
The ability to characterize this complexity remains a challenge with the current analytical methods, and as a consequence, progress in deciphering GAG structure-function relationships has been hindered.
