The phrase "a reference collection of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a curated group of items or materials that serve as a source of information or examples for a specific subject or field.
Example: "The library has a reference collection of historical documents that researchers can access for their studies."
Alternatives: "a resource compilation of" or "a curated set of".
Seeds were counted and identified to species using a reference collection of seeds collected from the same sites.
THINGS TO DO The Henry Miller Memorial Library (Highway 1; 831-667-2574; www.henrymiller.org) maintains a reference collection of Miller's work, a bookshop and a big wooden deck where visitors can enjoy coffee and Wi-Fi.
A reference collection of modern droppings of large size artiodactyls of Patagonia, Lama guanicoe (guanaco) and Hippocamelus bisulcus (huemul), was also studied.
Consulting a reference collection of DNA from 1050 people from around the world held by CEPH, the French gene database, the scientists found that most Europeans have both of the sweetness-sensing variants.
A reference collection of 178 Chinese papers, dating from 1799 to 1990 was used, and properties such as pH, degree of polymerisation (DP), lignin content, and tensile strength (zero-span) were determined.
If the applicability domain depends on a reference collection of structures it must be defined using the SOHN reference dataset since this is the chemical space used for the kNN prediction.
The experiments have allowed us to create a reference collection for the implementation of use-wear analysis on shell tool assemblages.
Experiments were conducted with a reference collection composed of 54,000 images gathered from Web.
To create a quantitative method for assigning characterization scores to each human gene, a representative reference collection of scores for a subset of genes was required.
This AGEP concept is similar to the widely applied sequence alignment tools, where a new test sequence is compared against a large reference collection of known genomes and sequence repositories.
Cmap connects small molecule drugs to one another or a small molecule drug to a human disease state by mapping a group of gene signatures to GEPs previously assembled as a large reference collection of ranked gene lists.
