The phrase "alter the reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes to a citation, source, or point of reference in a document or conversation.
Example: "In order to improve the accuracy of our report, we need to alter the reference to the original study."
Alternatives: "modify the reference" or "change the reference."
A computer-driven translation stage, TS1, is used to alter the reference path length to select different depths for C-scans while acquiring stacks of C-scans as well as scanning the depth in the B-scan acquisition mode.
We used a custom script to combine SNPs and indels for each strain into a single "patch" file, and a second script to read this patch file and alter the reference genome by changing, inserting or deleting nucleotides at the appropriate locations.
As demonstrated in previous work by our researchers [ 8, 21] and others [ 22], the use of a galvanometer to alter the reference arm length appears to be a simple and easy way to avoid the necessity for a patch fiber and adjustment of the dispersion compensation.
When Fitch substituted the true conjunction, p ∧ ¬∃x∃t(Kxpt), for p in the knowability principle, he substituted for p a non-rigid designator, thereby altering the reference of the conjunction and perpetrating a modal fallacy.
The statement was quite significantly more hawkish, as they altered the reference to "downside risks" by indicating that this risk has diminished "since the fall".
To determine the effect of read length on the ability to identify small indels, we altered the reference of supercontig 1 at evenly spaced intervals to simulate indels, aligned un-altered data to the altered reference, and then determined if maq was able to correctly identify the simulated indels.
Evaluating the samples as single entities, (i.e. ER+ IBC, ER- IBC, normal or cell lines) rather than combinations thereof did not significantly alter the most optimal reference genes identified.
Moreover, vandalism and environmental conditions disrupt and more than likely alter the fixity of the reference points.
Changes in the received symbol rate in software radio applications can further complicate the hardware implementation by requiring additional control signals to alter the frequency of the reference signal.
In TD-OCT the reference mirror is scanned in time to alter the path length in the reference channel.
When I asked Rivera if he thought that, in the long run, this generation would not alter the political terms of reference in the Cuban-American community, his answer was curiously ambiguous and seemed more like a statement of faith than the conclusion of a hardheaded, savvy modern American politician.
