The phrase "as a reference that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something serves as a point of reference or source of information for a particular context.
Example: "Please consult the attached document as a reference that outlines the project requirements in detail."
Alternatives: "as a point of reference" or "as a source of information".
By taking the genomic positions of the identified peaks as a reference (that is to a peak score of at least 0.5), we assembled the sub-sequences underlying the peaks.
This assembler uses a very closely related genome sequence as a reference that is used to guide the assembly of the shotgun sequence reads into contigs.
The underlying concept is that duplicate soybean blocks could serve as a reference that would point to the most likely genetic position for any given common bean sequence.
Every other slide was stained with hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) as a reference that allowed for the microscopic identification of the different cells.
The product generated on the nusG (also known as rfaH) cDNA was used as a reference that shows a low level of variation in expression level in our experiments.
Therefore, grey wolves may have additional variation that is undetected when using domestic dogs as a reference that could be informative for understanding the evolutionary history of the IGF1 gene.
At one point, he referred to Obama as "that one" - a reference that caused some women in the audience to wince.
At one point in the meeting, Assistant Chief William Taylor Jr., the commander of detectives in Manhattan, referred to victims of the attack as "girls," a reference that angered some of the women.
These types of areas have potential as a modern reference that can be applied in the reconstruction of past analogous environments such as coal deposits associated with fluvial paleoenvironments.
Only the surrogate treatment can be considered as a clinical reference that is closely correlated with staging.
Esquith has defended the joke as a literary reference that his students at Hobart Boulevard Elementary were knowledgeable enough to understand.
