The phrase "assist in characterizing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the role of someone or something in helping to define or describe a particular subject or phenomenon.
Example: "The research team aims to assist in characterizing the behavior of the new material under various conditions."
Alternatives: "help in defining" or "aid in describing".
A series of model compounds were also synthesized to assist in characterizing the polymers.
Brunauer, Emmett and Teller (BET) surface area analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) were used to assist in characterizing the resulting sorbents.
For nanoscale DCEs, a FEM model was developed to assist in characterizing the probe size based on simple steady-state limiting current measurements.
Technologies that summarize the principal disease processes affected (e.g., functional enrichment analysis) assist in characterizing the primary functional features, but often fail to suggest detailed information of disease and treatment action.
The study undertaken here was directed at determining whether mathematical methods used in social network analysis may assist in characterizing the pathologic gene expression networks that may underlie JIA, and to determine whether and how effective therapy perturbs those networks.
The participants who loaded heavily and specifically for a single respondent type (i.e. >60% concordance on the type of interest and <30% concordance on remaining types) were designated respondent type "definers" and closely reviewed to assist in characterizing each respondent type.
PH assisted in characterizing HOMUR clones.
The development of reliable phospho-specific SGK3 antibodies would assist in further characterizing the role of mTORC2 in SGK3 regulation.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home Assessment (PCMH-A) was developed for the dual purposes of assisting practices in characterizing their progress and identifying opportunities to improve implementation of the changes.
Future research trials employing a multi-factorial design would assist in isolating and characterizing the effects of single and combination treatments.
Several visualization tools were developed to assist in analyzing and characterizing data quality patterns for each site: upload pattern graphs (Fig. 1), stacked lag histograms and arrays of lagged time series graphs.
