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Converting from umol gDCW^1 to molar #5

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jonrkarr opened this issue Jul 8, 2020 · 0 comments

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jonrkarr commented Jul 8, 2020

Terms

gDCW = gram dry cell weight (g)
gC = gram cell [dry weight and wet/water weight] (g)

Data

gDCW / gC = 0.3 (dimensionless)
- Sources
  - https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/keynumbers.aspx
  - https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/search.aspx?trm=water+mass
gC / l = 1.1 (g / l)
- Sources
  - E. coli: https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=103875

Normalization calculation

uM = umol / l = (umol / gDCW) * (gDCW / gC) * (gC / l)
value-in-uM = value-in-umol-gDCW * 0.3 * 1.1

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jonrkarr changed the title ~~Conversion from umol gDCW^1 to molar~~ Converting from umol gDCW^1 to molar

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