The phrase "able to characterize a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or capability to describe or define something in detail.
Example: "The researcher is able to characterize a wide range of chemical compounds through advanced analytical techniques."
Alternatives: "capable of defining a" or "able to describe a".
A team of researchers was able to characterize a fundamental way that terrorists and other groups use social media to organize themselves.
If she or others can replicate and elaborate on this diagnostic ability, doctors might be able to characterize a patient's depression and choose a best-odds therapy -- Prozac for one patient, talk therapy for a second, both for a third -- at the very beginning of treatment, savings weeks or months of trial and error.
With our restriction to classic IC we were able to characterize a relatively homogenous group of patients.
To our knowledge, this model represents the first thermodynamics-constrained kinetic model that is able to characterize a complete set of kinetic data of mammalian SCS.
To our knowledge, this model represents the first thermodynamic-constrained kinetic model that is able to characterize a complete set of kinetic data of mammalian SCS.
BLOG computes for each species in the reference set the distinctive nucleotide positions of the DNA Barcode sequences and the logic classification rules in the form of "if-then" that are able to characterize a species in a compact way.
"With E-ELT we hope to be able to characterize an Earth-like exoplanet," Martins says.
By these means, we were able to characterize an intrinsic potential of SCs able to give rise to high and low proliferative clones.
From this data we were able to characterize an additional 44 novel partial-length rhesus macaque KIR sequences, 32 of which were found in multiple animals.
punctiforme), we were able to characterize an 18-gene region associated with the biosynthesis of scytonemin [ 11], and compare that genomic region to a similar gene cluster in Anabaena PCC 7120 (Anabaena).
Using this approach we were able to characterize all SNPs as being either: (a) polymorphic in both ecotypes; (b) fixed in one ecotype, polymorphic in the other; or (c) fixed for different alleles in each ecotype.
