The phrase "attempted to align" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an effort to bring things into agreement or harmony, whether in a literal or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The team attempted to align their goals with the company's vision during the strategic planning session."
Alternatives: "sought to align" or "tried to align".
While many existing 1D alignment methods have attempted to align each spectrum in a data set to a single consensus spectrum, the quality of these "star alignments" can suffer if there is wide chemical diversity between spectra, as any individual spectrum chosen as a star may not include the full complement of metabolites present in the other data sets.
Another former LTA acolyte, who attempted to align a privately funded academy with the system, has given up and returned to business.
In a desperate rearguard action, his spokesman tried to argue that the dramatic events were good for Fifa and attempted to align them with a discredited reform programme promised in the wake of a swirl of allegations four years ago.
It is then necessary, before any separation is attempted, to align score and audio as precisely as possible.
Language examination authorities and language testers have so far attempted to align examinations to the CEFR or design tests or self-assessment instruments based on the CEFR scale (e.g., DIALANG, see http://www.dialang.org; see also Khalifa and Ffrench 2008; Huhta et al. 2002; North 2002).
Ambiguities notwithstanding, for Viète and other early modern mathematicians there was one feature of the discussion that was incredibly important: Pappus makes clear that the ancients had a method of analysis at their disposal, and many early modern mathematicians attempted to align this method from antiquity with the algebraic methods of geometrical analysis that they were using.
This alignment looks for inversions by attempting to align the query gap sequence to the genomic region bounded by the genomic alignment coordinates of the bases flanking the gap in the original contig-to-genome alignment.
This constraint is also in accordance with our intention for long read alignments, i.e. attempting to align a read in the full length to the genome.
dialign is a local alignment algorithm that does not attempt to align proteins from start to finish.
However, any mistakes made early on, either due to a faulty initial guide tree or simply misaligned regions, can become locked and bias the final multiple sequence alignment, a problem exacerbated when attempting to align highly diverged sequences [ 84].
When attempting to align only upstream non-coding sequence, MultiPipMaker produced alignments among Latrodectus sequences but not between Latrodectus and Argiope or Nephila.
