The phrase "and begin to decipher" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating the start of the process of interpreting or understanding something, often complex or coded.
Example: "After gathering all the clues, the detective sat down and began to decipher the hidden message."
Alternatives: "and start to interpret" or "and commence decoding".
I really wanted nothing to do with any of that until about 1987 when I started hearing pieces of old music in hip-hop records at the time and began to decipher where it all came from.
Guate, a police investigator with broad shoulders and close-cropped silver hair, has listened to hundreds of hours of wiretapped phone calls between traffickers and begun to decipher their code language.
And by that I mean tasting one Pinot Noir or Sangiovese against another and beginning to decipher the differences between a Pinot from Oregon or the Santa Rita Hills and one from Burgundy's Côte de Nuits.
Genes were placed onto the genetic map together with the QTL identified in an attempt to validate QTLs by finding candidate genes, and thus, to begin to decipher the genetic network underling soybean isoflavone seed content.
The book is a fixture on the desks of many who deal with the technical world (like reporters, lawyers and financial analysts) because it helps them begin to decipher mind-bending appellations like asynchronous transfer mode, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and twisted-pair physical media dependent.
Plant GH1 β-glucosidases are encoded by a multigene family, so we predicted the structures of the genes and the properties of their protein products, and characterized their phylogenetic relationship to other plant GH1 members, their expression and the activity of one of them, to begin to decipher their roles in rice.
We have initiated studies in a mouse model system to begin to decipher the roles of Wnt/ß-catenin and mitogen regulation of MYC expression in normal gastrointestinal physiology and in the pathophysiology of colon cancer.
This allows the teacher to begin to decipher what the student is trying to convey and to identify the underlying cause of the outburst.
Because the game was unfolding inside a brain scanner — an admittedly imperfect tool, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for neural activity — the scientists could begin to decipher the mental mechanics behind this process.
