The phrase "augment reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate the enhancement or improvement of a reference or source of information.
Example: "To improve the quality of our research, we need to augment reference materials with more recent studies."
Alternatives: "enhance citation" or "improve reference".
Technology-specific error models could also be incorporated to augment the reference to better deal with sequencing errors.
The power of these studies could potentially be boosted by using African American haplotypes to augment the reference sets collected in Africa.
Note that although augmenting the reference with indels and other structural variants allows us to easily handle these events during alignment, it does lead to an increase in the size of the reference string due to padding and, therefore, a higher memory overhead.
[Updates: This story originally published about Facebook launching a modified version of Android that creates a Facebook content-heavy home screen experience that will debut on an HTC handset, but has since been augmented with references to other sites who later reported their sources had heard similar details about the event.
In addition, some new frequencies and mode shapes are provided to augment the archived reference frequencies and mode shapes.
The overall gain-scheduled design is augmented by a reference governor to avoid performance degradation in the presence of large tracking commands.
We find unpersuasive respondents' attempt to augment this claim by reference to Brendale v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Nation, 492 U. S. 408, 440 (1989) (opinion of Stevens, J.).
The purpose of this challenge was to augment and refine the reference map in a species-specific manner using data-driven approaches.
The search was augmented by manually examining reference lists of reviews and retrieved reports.
Additionally, NSTC verifies the effectiveness and efficiency of the Duke NROTC Program annually and conducts scheduled and unscheduled visits to augment the self-inspections referenced above.
