The phrase "alignment is characterized" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the specific features or qualities that define a particular alignment in a given context.
Example: "In this study, alignment is characterized by the consistent application of principles across all levels of the organization."
Alternatives: "alignment is defined by" or "alignment is marked by".
The highway alignment is characterized by sandy and silty soil types within 0 to 6.0 m depth investigated.
Moreover, since a good alignment is characterized by a small distance between corresponding points, it would be more convenient to use a descriptor that represents the geometry of the environment better.
An alignment is characterized by the number of matches m, that of mismatches f, that of gaps g i in s i and that of gaps g j in s j.The length of s i is equal to m + f + g j and that of s j is m + f + g i, because any letter in s i is aligned to either a letter in s j or gap symbol in s j and vice versa.
Membrane structure and fiber alignment were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and two-dimensional fast Fourier transform.
Most of the 894 codons in the PRDM9 alignment are characterized by negative (purifying) selection, indicated by a low estimated dN/dS value (frequency of nonsynonymous change relative to synonymous change).
The system's geometric distortion, linearity, the modulation transfer function, and the dual detectors' alignment were characterized.
The alignments were characterized using the Protpars routine of Phylogeny Inference Package version 3.2 software (PHYLIP) [ 31] to make a maximum parsimony estimate of the number of substitutions that occurred along each clade of the underlying phylogeny.
Type 2: hairpin swapping between P17 and P17.1 The second type of alignment pattern is characterized by comparisons between Agrobacterium tumefaciens (ASE_00018) and several Chlamydia trachomatis members.
Type 1: loop swapping in main multiloop accompanied by hairpin deletion in P17.1 The first type of alignment pattern is characterized by comparisons between a green sulfur bacteria Chlorobium and gamma purple bacterial RNAse P RNAs.
Despite the low number of sequences used for the analysis, one of them (in position 252 of the alignment in Additional file 7) is characterized by a p-value <0.1 (considered to be a stringent significant threshold for single likelihood ancestor counting (SLAC) evolutionary analysis) (Fig. 3).
The earliest deformation stage is characterized by the alignment of Kmax declination to a particular direction while the sedimentary fabric is preserved.
