The phrase "assign function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to programming or task delegation, where a specific function or role is being designated to someone or something.
Example: "In the code, we need to assign function 'calculateTotal' to handle the summation of values."
Alternatives: "allocate function" or "designate function".
We have developed a simple, but effective, procedure in order to assign function transferring GO terms to unannotated protein nodes inside functionally conserved modules between two Mycoplasma species.
Using the best hits found by BLAST, an inferred putative function was assigned to the sequences and were sorted into various functional categories as shown in Figure 2. We were able to assign function to 60% of the genes while our data analysis revealed that 18.28% of the CaUnigenes belong to no significant homology (NSH) class.
In the postgenomic era, the ability to quickly, efficiently, and inexpensively assign function to the zebrafish proteome is critical.
Within this new reality lies the challenge of developing large-scale approaches to assign function to the new genes and place them in pathways.
The positions of SSRs with respect to open reading frame (ORF) detected and annotation of sequences containing SSRs were also carried out to assign function to each of the sequences.
Step 2: Assign function values to mesh vertices (and interpolation nodes) from original image using linear finite element interpolation and compute the user-defined metric tensor (mathbb {M}) on the mesh.
KEGG is often used to tentatively assign functions and other properties to genes.
In this report, we tried to systematically assign functions to all predicted rice genes with FSTs.
Second, an algorithm is needed to assign functions.
Such conditional knockdown mutants helped assign functions to essential genes whose biological role was previously unknown.
Hayete and Bienkowska (2005) applied the decision tree technique to assign functions to domains.
