# A microbial growth curve	
#	
# The data are of an experiment in which the bacterium Lactococcus lactis was 	
# grown in a culture in a microplate well. The optical density (OD) or light 	
# scatter at 600 nm was measured for more than 60 hours.	
#	
# The background scatter of the medium has been subtracted from the data.	
#	
# The OD or scatter is roughly proportional to the biomass or number of cells 	
# in the culture. We see an initial fast, exponential growth phase, which slows	
# down as the OD reaches a value of 0.5. A little later growth arrests and the	
# OD peaks sharply around 10 hours. The decrease of OD after 10 hours is not 	
# well understood. It may be caused by several factors like lysis of cells, the
# formation of long chains and precipitation of cells to the bottom of the 	
# well. We assume that the maximal OD reached is indicative of the maximal 	
# amount of biomass formed in the growth medium.	
time	OD
0	0.002
0.25	0.0014
0.5	0.0014
0.75	0.0016
1	0.0021
1.25	0.0023
1.5	0.0029
1.75	0.0039
2	0.005
2.25	0.0064
2.5	0.0082
2.75	0.0105
3	0.0139
3.25	0.0178
3.5	0.023
3.75	0.0293
4	0.0377
4.25	0.0477
4.5	0.0617
4.75	0.0798
5	0.1021
5.25	0.1318
5.5	0.1684
5.75	0.2159
6	0.2679
6.25	0.3249
6.5	0.3944
6.75	0.4779
7	0.5432
7.25	0.6027
7.5	0.6768
7.75	0.7506
8	0.8324
8.25	0.8952
8.5	0.9436
8.75	0.9672
9	0.9818
9.25	0.997
9.5	1.0132
9.75	1.0218
10	1.0208
10.25	1.0153
10.5	1.0124
10.75	1.0066
11	1.0062
11.25	0.9976
11.5	0.9939
11.75	0.9925
12	0.9886
12.25	0.9889
12.5	0.9807
12.75	0.9801
13	0.9812
13.25	0.9755
13.5	0.9737
13.75	0.9658
14	0.9672
14.25	0.9627
14.5	0.9658
14.75	0.9604
15	0.9605
15.25	0.9593
15.5	0.9497
15.75	0.9488
16	0.9447
16.25	0.9419
16.5	0.9437
16.75	0.9394
17	0.9351
17.25	0.9303
17.5	0.9307
17.75	0.9241
18	0.9209
18.25	0.9181
18.5	0.9134
18.75	0.9092
19	0.9093
19.25	0.9023
19.5	0.8997
19.75	0.9
20	0.895