The phrase "an effort to decipher" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing attempts to understand or interpret something that is unclear or complex.
Example: "The researchers made an effort to decipher the ancient manuscript, hoping to uncover its hidden meanings."
Alternatives: "a attempt to interpret" or "an endeavor to understand".
By Rebecca Mead July 20, 2016 Ann Patty's book "Living with a Dead Language" is an effort to decipher her own life by deciphering two-thousand-year-old texts.
Analogous to the difficulty facing medical science would be an effort to decipher a string of three billion 1s and 0s without intimate knowledge of instruction code and how programs, reference tables, or data files are written.
Instead, Koestenbaum fixes on Warhol's films -- perhaps his most overtly homoerotic art -- as the key to his vision, and painstakingly analyzes such movies as "Sleep," "Haircut," and "Empire State Building" almost frame by frame, in an effort to decipher the man and artist.
Strategists from both parties are therefore poring over this week's muddled results in an effort to decipher whether and under what circumstances Democrats can still prevail in the battlegrounds of the South.There is little question that the Republicans remain the party to beat in most of the region.
On the morning of Sunday 4 July, hundreds of thousands of Christians across America fell to their knees to beseech their god for forgiveness in an effort to decipher why he has forsaken the United States, the most Christian nation on earth.
Now, a few years later, in a retrofitted shoe factory that is the headquarters of BGI-Shenzhen, the 21-year-old is orchestrating an effort to decipher the genetic makeup of some 2,000 people more than 12 trillion DNA bases in all.
It took a concerted effort to decipher the system and develop the points of contact at each echelon to work through the red tape.
When the federal government initiated its effort to decipher the human genome, a percentage of the budget went to consideration of ethics issues like genetic discrimination.
And with the help of a recent bonanza from a long dead American pharmacist, Cambridge scientists have become leading players in the effort to decipher the human genome.
The agreement is designed to marry Geron's expertise working with stem cells, a field that researchers say could yield effective treatment for diseases like Parkinson's and heart disease, with Celera's effort to decipher the human genetic code.
In "The Language of God," Dr. Collins, the geneticist who led the American government's effort to decipher the human genome, describes his own journey from atheism to committed Christianity, a faith he embraced as a young physician.
