The phrase "collected as a reference" is correct and can be used in written English
For example, "The data was collected as a reference to better understand the current market trends."
Additionally, reports of field clusters occurring during the same time were collected as reference.
Immediately after the completion of data acquisition, the animal (n = 2) was sacrificed and 30 MESI frames (1 MESI frame consists of 15 exposure durations) were collected as a zero flow reference.
Training sets were made from the population reference samples collected as described above and comprised 48 DNAs each from Spanish and Moroccans resident in Madrid.
The old-school references detected by the conspiracy theorists were actually a product of the Internet and the basketball cards that Droog collected as a child.
Therefore in addition to the MLST analysis of the CF strains, we determined the MLST profiles of 72 colonizing S. agalactiae isolates, which were collected recently, as a reference population [8].
Ba/F3 cells were washed and incubated in IL-3-depleted media for 5 h and total RNA was collected as reference RNA.
In addition, data concerning changes in the prevalence of genotype combinations over time was collected, as was any reference to emerging serotypes.
Among the protein sequences available as the relevant enzyme names in the NCBI DB (in January 2014), the sequences accompanied by one or more publications about the bacterial degradation of aromatic compounds were first collected as the initial reference sequences of our in-house DB.
Blood samples were collected as germplasm control references.
