"helps to trace" is correct and frequently used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone or something aids in the process of tracking or finding something. Example: The new software program helps to trace the origin of website traffic, making it easier for businesses to target their advertising efforts.
And for clarity, it helps to trace the roots of the fundamental idea — that people should receive benefits at a certain age — which in modern times stretches back at least to 19th-century Germany.
The chart helps to trace the logical flow of over_sampling process over given imbalanced Big Data sets set using UCPMOT.
When placed on the latitude-local time cross-section, it helps to trace the nature of equivalent AQD current system.
The current vector plots for PC-1 are shown in Fig. 4b, which helps to trace the nature of the CEJ-related equivalent current system.
The output multiplier helps to trace those sectors of the economy where additional spending will have the greatest impact in terms of monetary value of output generated throughout the economy (Miller and Blair 1985).
Isotope labelling of choline with nine deuterium atoms, which increases the number of mass units by +9 in the PC head group in subsequent metabolic products, helps to trace specific PC molecular species in pulmonary surfactant.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is helping to trace where that money went.
His steady requests for information from senior police, Interior Ministry and military officials in court helped to trace nearly 100 detainees.
He said putting serial numbers on the transformers -- an idea championed by some police officials -- would only help to trace stolen lights.
Perhaps more important than helping to trace the roots of humans and to see the differences between populations of humans, DNA sequence information has enabled recognition of how closely related one population of humans is to another and how closely related humans are to the multitude of other species that inhabit the Earth.
Asked if the technique might help to trace the whole nervous pathway from sensing the odor to flying away, Dr. Greenspan replied, "It would be a miracle at this point because the notion of where this process produces a motor output is as undefined as it could be," meaning that the neural circuits that drive the fly's motion are still unknown.
