The phrase "adapt methods" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the modification or adjustment of techniques or approaches to better suit a particular situation or need.
Example: "In order to improve our results, we need to adapt methods that have proven successful in similar projects."
Alternatives: "modify techniques" or "adjust approaches".
Seeking new markets for their wines, many of them began to examine, and adapt, methods used to make the fruity, approachable wines that the rest of the world found so appealing.
In this paper, we adapt methods for classing mountain pine beetle-induced tree mortality to detect spruce beetle-induced tree mortality from single-date high-resolution imagery and multi-date moderate-resolution data.
PSWS will be to review, test, improve and adapt methods and tools available within the partner institutes in order to make prototype planetary event and space weather services operational in Europe at the end of 2017.
A "performance based" process is described whereby individual laboratories can adapt methods best suited to their situations.
Recently, other normalisation methods have been proposed that adapt methods originally developed for microarrays and other high-throughput genomic technologies [ 19- 21].
Another approach would be to adapt methods developed for normalizing microarray experiments such as generalized procrustes analysis (Xiong et al., 2008) and modified Loess [loessM (Risso et al., 2009)].
Hygric and thermal characterizations were performed on carbonated aggregates with adapted methods.
Health promotion efforts directed at Latinos may be more effective when culturally adapted methods are used.
Adapting methods of clinical trial performance will likely improve the success rate of therapeutics to ultimately achieve human use.
The adapted methods will enable further detailed studies on how archaeal biofilms are formed and how their structures develop.
Ploidy was determined by adapting methods previously described (Fox et al., 2010).
