The phrase "assign identity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are designating or establishing an identity for someone or something, often in technical or organizational settings.
Example: "In the system, we need to assign identity to each user to ensure proper access control."
Alternatives: "designate identity" or "establish identity".
In the past, such efforts to assign identity to the masses have met with relative success, but are fraught with complications.
Modern science, in giving us the means to assign identity to the tiniest fragments of flesh, turns us all into Trojans begging Achilles to return Hector's corpse.
Slides were scanned and gridded, and the resulting data files were submitted to the Stanford Microarray Database (http://genome-www.stanford.edu/microarray) to assign identity to each spot and to normalize Cy3/Cy5 relative intensities for each slide.
In forensic sciences, a perfect match of sequence at multiple microsatellites is used to assign identity with near certainty.
Since data availability is generally biased towards the most studied human viruses, most databases do not contain enough information to successfully assign identity to the great majority of viral sequence queries from environmental samples.
Conversely, we were able to assign identity to 17 spots enriched 1.5-fold or more in the non-fibre fraction; at least seven of these were associated with photosynthesis (spots #44–#473 #74, #74, #81).
The SRC scheme was used to assign identities to the facial images.
Based on nuclear position and shape, we assign identities to cells.
After data normalisation, exclusion of genes with less than a 1.5 average fold-change in expression and bioinformatics analysis, we were able to assign identities to 193 out of these differentially expressed transcripts.
Cloud IDMS assigns identity credentials to the CSC that he uses while acquiring/accessing various Cloud resources.
In the second, he walks through a city and is given clothes with different messages that help him liberate himself from his assigned identity.
