"to alter the pattern" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to change or modify the existing pattern or design. Example: The fashion designer decided to alter the pattern of the dress to make it more modern and fashionable.
Extraction of groundwater tends to alter the pattern and speed of natural flows, the report said.
In addition, SDS is also able to alter the pattern of gelation.
Eight buttons on top of the device light up to show live connections and allow users to alter the pattern of the hookups quickly.
Upon independence in 1980, Robert Mugabe's government moved cautiously to alter the pattern of management that it inherited from the white minority regime.
The question facing voters is whether they wish to continue this system or to alter the pattern of health insurance coverage and the distributional consequences of the current funding modes.
The latter is likely to alter the pattern of load sharing between muscles and predisposing musculoligamentous to injury either through stress concentration in deformed tissues or exceeding the strain rate tolerance in fatigue induced jerky motion (micromotion).
A vaccine might therefore offer the opportunity to alter the patterns of CTL immunodominance seen in natural infection by predetermining memory responses against epitopes that are highly conserved, rather than those with the highest affinity [16] or other immunodominant properties that do not limit escape.
We have tested candidate genes identified by microarray analysis for their ability to alter the patterning of the Drosophila eye.
A similar strategy could be exploited during evolution to alter the patterns of gene expression between species.
This pathway, known to function in parallel with the p38 cascade during early myogenic differentiation, is critically involved in activation of muscle differentiation, muscle cell survival, and regeneration., Consistent with this notion, suppression of each of these pathways was shown to alter the patterns of specific chromatin modifiers on the Mck enhancer.
Development of resistance in a pest population submitted to intense control is however expected to significantly alter the pattern of allelic frequencies around the positively selected genomic region [ 34, 35].
