Subject area	Biology
More specific subject area	Lipids production by biotechnological process and their extraction
Type of data	Table, text file, graph, figure
How data was acquired	Gas Chromatography - Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID)
Data format	Raw data collection and analysis
Experimental factors	Biomass production and oven drying and lipids extraction, classification, transesterification and analyzed in the GC-FID.
Experimental features	The microorganism was cultivated in low cost simulated sugarcane wastewater, vinasse.
Data source location	Mortierella elongata (CBS 121.71) was acquired from the CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands. All experiments were developed in Campinas-SP, Brazil.
Data accessibility	Data are presented in this article