"employ the platform" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about executing an action on a platform or digital service. For example, "We need to employ the platform to grow our customer base."
According to a report of PewInternet "66 % of social media users1have employed the platforms to post their thoughts about civic and political issues, react to others' postings, press friends to act on issues and vote, follow candidates, 'like' and link to others' content, and belong to groups formed on social networking sites" [11].
We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartments in different areas of the two largest Spanish cities, Madrid and Barcelona.
The reason is that we had to employ the same platform for validation as we had used to build the classifiers.
For example, a gene that is listed in two studies that employ different microarray platforms and statistical methods could be considered more meaningful than a gene that is listed in two studies that employ the same microarray platform and statistical methodology.
We implemented the mathematical model presented in this work in gPROMS, employing the Modelbuilder platform.
We successfully employed the LIC-IFP platform for in vivo and in vitro expression of ten plant and fungal proteins, including transcription factors and enzymes.
We employed the xCELLigence platform (Roche) which facilitates studying of cell proliferation in real time.
Several additional studies have employed the HaloTag platform to isolate proteins for functionality studies.
We next employed the NextBio platform to relate our expression data to previously published large-scale genomics data.
Several recent studies have employed the Illumina/Solexa platform to offer a far greater coverage than 454 pyrosequencing [ 19- 21].
