The phrase "assign functions to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the allocation of specific roles or tasks to individuals, groups, or systems.
Example: "In our project, we need to assign functions to each team member based on their expertise."
Alternatives: "allocate roles to" or "designate tasks to".
As a most relevant example of practical interest, knowledge about a module facilitates to assign functions to not yet annotated genes modularly associated with fully annotated functional "collaborators".
The ENCODE project used six approaches to help assign functions to particular sequences within the genome.
The aims of proteomics are to identify and quantify proteins present in a cell, and assign functions to them within the context of dynamic biological systems.
Using computational methods - which are used to identify genes and their functions including statistics, sequence similarity, motifs, profiles, protein folds and probabilistic models - it is possible to develop characteristic genome signatures, assign functions to genes, identify pathogenic genes, identify metabolic pathways, develop diagnostic probes and discover potential drug-binding sites.
In this report, we tried to systematically assign functions to all predicted rice genes with FSTs.
Chemical probes may help assign functions to individual members of an important family of epigenetic regulator proteins.
To systematically assign functions to 29,624 rice FST genes, we used the diverse overview tools installed in MapMan.
Such conditional knockdown mutants helped assign functions to essential genes whose biological role was previously unknown.
Lastly, for the orthology based method, we attempted to assign functions to proteins according to their annotated orthologs in other species.
Hence, by performing PPI studies it is feasible to assign functions to uncharacterized proteins and understand the composition of protein complexes.
A challenge in systems biology is to assign functions to genes from the information in large-scale datasets, maximizing the utility of available information to make predictions of function with verifiable performance.
