TY - JOUR T1 - Predicting competition results from growth curves JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/022640 SP - 022640 AU - Yoav Ram AU - Eynat Dellus-Gur AU - Uri Obolski AU - Maayan Bibi AU - Judith Berman AU - Lilach Hadany Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/07/23/022640.abstract N2 - Measuring relative fitness by pairwise competition experiments is laborious and expensive. Accordingly, many investigators estimate fitness from the maximum growth rate during exponential growth. However, maximum growth rates have been shown to be an unreliable measure of fitness as indicated by discrepancies between these parameters and the outcomes of pairwise competition experiments. Here we propose a new method that estimates relative fitness by predicting the results of competition experiments from single strain growth curves. ER -