"adapt a method" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to modify or adjust a particular technique or approach in order to make it more suitable for a specific situation or purpose. Example: The new teacher had to adapt a different method of teaching to suit the diverse learning styles of her students.
We thus adapt a method from microarray gene-expression studies [9], where we consider the expected number of true positives in a list of top SNPs.
Here, we adapt a method devised by Carvalho and colleagues (unpublished; the original approach was aimed toward discovering Y-linked contigs in Drosophila) and identify female-specific sequences by contrasting male-derived, short-read shotgun genomic sequences and unmapped sequence fragments (chrUn) from the female-derived chicken genome.
The goals of this study were to: 1. Identify changes in miRNA expression that occurred in the frontal cortex (FC) of HIV individuals, 2. Determine whether miRNA expression profiles of the FC could differentiate HIV from HIV/MDD, and 3. Adapt a method to meaningfully integrate gene expression data and miRNA expression data in clinical samples.
They adapted a method used by car manufacturers to check production quality by testing samples from various lots.
The authors adapted a method used for participatory design with typical children for involving children with autism.
Researchers have adapted a method normally used for analyzing the evolutionary history of genes to construct a family tree of Western European languages.
Adapting a method by Isermeyer (1952), 1.00 g of pooled litter was mixed with 50 g wet soil in 1-L jars, with four replicates per litter pool.
The distribution of [11C]prucalopride between 1-octanol and 0.2 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) was measured in triplicate at room temperature by adapting a method previously described [16].
He took bone-core samples and, in collaboration with a Pennsylvania State University team, adapted a method for large-scale sequencing of nuclear genomes that had never been used on fragmented, ancient DNA.
Note, though, that the effort required for adapting a method can differ significantly: For example, methods for identifying molecular formulas from isotope patterns (see Section "Molecular formula identification") can be applied to any experimental setup where isotope patterns are recorded.
Ref. [19] also adapts a method by Vuong [20] to compare different heavy-tailed distributions.
