The phrase "and attempted to reconstruct" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an effort to rebuild or recreate something, often in a context of analysis or investigation.
Example: "The archaeologists uncovered ancient artifacts and attempted to reconstruct the historical context of the civilization."
Alternatives: "and tried to rebuild" or "and sought to recreate".
This paper provides quantification of the attributes of the uplifted area, determining the pre-quake extent of the intertidal habitats, and attempting to reconstruct some intertidal community assemblages based on post-quake artefacts.
Since we have no ground truth for real input image sets, we test the accuracy of appearance modelling by simply leaving out one of the n input images at a time and attempting to reconstruct the left-out image.
Transplantation as a therapeutic strategy for inherited retinal degeneration has been historically viewed to restore vision as a method by replacing the lost retinal cells and attempting to reconstruct the neural circuitry with stem cells, progenitor cells and mature neural retinal cells.
Furthermore, Trinity is based on paired-end reads and attempts to reconstruct transcripts for splice isoforms in each group.
Analytical Marxists, by contrast, are directly concerned with addressing the truth or falsity of Marx's substantive findings in social science and have attempted to reconstruct or salvage his arguments using the same tools that conventional social scientists or philosophers would use.
WANG: But even in the dynasties when Confucianism was in decline, rulers and scholars still attempted to reconstruct the ideology of the Confucianism to some degree.
Versions 2.3 and 2.5 of Newbler were the only assemblers that explicitly attempted to reconstruct and group alternative transcripts and isoforms.
In the last three decades, authors like Taylor (1989, 1991, 1995, 2007), Ferrara (1993 19988), Jacob Golomb (1995), Guignon (2004, 2008) and Varga (2011a) have attempted to reconstruct authenticity by maintaining that the justified criticism of self-indulgent forms of the idea does not justify the total condemnation of the idea itself (see Taylor 1991: 56).
Moreover, Fukuda and Endoh [32], [33] attempted to reconstruct the early evolution of dinokaryotes based on the properties of the gametes in N. scintillans; we think this approach is problematic for several reasons.
