The phrase "adapted a method" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the process of modifying or adjusting a particular method for a specific purpose or context.
Example: "The researchers adapted a method used in previous studies to better suit their experimental design."
Alternatives: "modified a technique" or "altered a procedure."
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.
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.
To selectively precipitate the assembled minichromosomes from the reconstitution reaction we adapted a method previously used to purify short chromatin fibres [41] based on their precipitation by MgCl2 [45], an effect that can be modulated by monovalent cations [46].
In this study we have adapted a method for culturing cells on biologically relevant "soft" substrates using ECM-conjugated polyacrylamide (PA) gels that can span the stiffness range of 100 Pa–150,000 Pa.
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].
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.
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.
