Fig. 5

Fitness components extraction from calibrated and non-calibrated growth curves. Fitness components were extracted from the high-quality benchmarking set of growth curves. a Example curves for each of the fitness components extracted (growth lag, rate and efficiency). For each estimated fitness component, markers (red triangles = non-calibrated data, black circles = calibrated data) indicate the data underlying that estimate. b Correlation between calibrated and non-calibrated data. Dotted line indicates the 1:1 relation. c Calibration function for different organisms. Recorded optical density (x-axis) and actual population size (density), as reflected in the OD recorded for a diluted cell suspension and multiplication with the dilution factor (y-axis), is shown