"contribute to defining" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing how something helps to define a concept or idea. For example: "Books about the history of France contribute to defining what it means to be French."
The genetic robot has many configurable genes that contribute to defining the robot's personality.
Additionally, we examine how the Hedgehog, WNT, and BMP signaling pathways contribute to defining unique epithelial features along the cephalocaudal axis of the GI tract.
Adopting a constructivist approach, expectations, conceptions and beliefs do contribute to defining the subjective framework under which individuals interpret and approach their everyday experience (see, for example, Farrell and Lim 2005; Marton et al. 2004).
The results of these research projects contribute to defining the concept of "humanisation" of hospitals as "a therapeutic practice that leads to looking at the patient taking fully into account the person's integrity, encouraging his or her participatory and active role in the therapeutic path and in the social structure of the hospital" (Spinelli et al. 1994).
Accumulating studies contributed to characterize the age-dependent changes either at gene and protein expression level which, taken together, show that aging of the human brain results from the combination of the normal decline of multiple biological functions with environmental factors that contribute to defining disease risk of late-life brain disorders.
These findings further contribute to defining the molecular signature of muscle satellite cells.
This will contribute to define innovative local development scenarios, integrating socio-ecological dimensions to ancient oil infrastructures (OILANDSCAPES).
The present study, linking DNA anchoring morphology to the conductive properties of nano-structured hybrid films, contribute to define a new approach in the optimization of biosensor design.
We propose that Scribble-dependent nascent cell-cell adhesion clusters between neuroepithelial progenitors contribute to define orientation of their cell division.
Our findings further contribute to define the biological functions of these two RBPs in physiological and disease state, strongly encouraging the evaluation of the identified transcriptomic changes at protein level in neuronal experimental models.
