The phrase "and decided to identify" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a choice or resolution to recognize or determine something, often in a narrative or explanatory context.
Example: "After much consideration, she reflected on her experiences and decided to identify the key factors that influenced her decision."
Alternatives: "and chose to recognize" or "and opted to determine".
To determine if agronomical important genes may be conserved in syntenic blocks between the coffee tree, the tomato and the grapevine, we decided to identify, map and compare the ovate regions in the coffee tree, the grapevine and several Solanaceae.
Since the number of inactive drugs was significantly smaller than the number of active drugs (in the training and test sets), we decided to identify a second set of inactives from the literature.
Mr. Sharpton said he had decided to identify and support candidates for City Council seats around the city after the recent controversy surrounding the presidential election in Florida.
So in partnership with Blast Motion, we decided to identify and highlight the top 20 skating channels that are engaging with their audiences the best.
To obtain a comprehensive insight into the multiple functions of frataxin, we decided to identify and characterize the interactions of human frataxin.
To this end, we decided to identify and characterize the silkworm ABC transporters at the genome-wide level.
Since the largest differences in gene expression were observed at the last analyzed time point (72 h), we decided to identify and use for further analyses those genes whose expression levels changed between 0 h and 72 h.
Given the conflicting claims and varying levels of authority we attributed to those sources, we have decided to identify his location of birth as "Apulco?, Mexico".
Dr. L. Joseph Melton, an osteoporosis epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic who attended the meeting, said the group decided to identify a new condition, osteopenia, for people 50 and older with lower than average bone density who did not have osteoporosis.
To avoid the influence of maternal tissue in the maize kernels, we decided to identify imprinted siRNA loci only in 7-, 10- and 15-DAP pure endosperms using the following procedures.
