The phrase 'having as starting point' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the beginning of a plan or process, or to introduce a point of view or idea. For example, "Having as starting point the theory proposed by Professor Smith, we can begin to consider the implications on our current policies."
This protein family has evolved to bind a variety of ligands, such as amino acids, carbohydrates and ions, naturally and has served as starting point for the directed evolution of biosensors, receptors and enzymes (Dwyer and Hellinga 2004).
The FOSS photogrammetric tool MicMac has been adopted as starting point.
To address the causes and effects of the change in engine response several types of transient processes consisting of driving cycles and load transient tests have been evaluated as starting point of the analysis.
They have been chosen as starting point for the development of the ethical assessment model in this paper, since the author substantially contributed to these projects and thus, is aware for the technologies.
In this paper, as starting point, we have mainly considered the influence of the external shape of the dust grains on the CO ice stretching mode.
Two known inhibitor structures have been used as starting points for two ligand/structure-hybrid virtual screening approaches.
Online listings of haunted places, and personal testimonies, have even served as starting points for investigators such as Sarchie and Dooley, who admits to using "websites like Real Ghost Stories to offer help to others".
The decrease in density indicated that these species had either served as starting points for larger aggregates or were incorporated into growing aggregates along the way.
Different theoretical frameworks such as institutional theory, public choice theory, and principal agent theory have been suggested as starting points for exploring the effects of regulation and inspection [ 8].
These had been used as starting points for the selection of BACs to extend contigs in two directions with minimum overlap, based on matches to BAC-end sequences [ 7].
They, just like descriptive theories, will have to have as their starting point a reasonable degree of certainty that we indeed are ontologically commitment to the entities they aim to capture.
