Appendix 1—table 1. Statistics for all experiments.

Glycerol auto is the dataset analyzed automatically, while Glycerol is the one analyzed manually. Each growth condition represent one experiment during which multiple positions on the chip where recorded and for which multiple growth channels were analyzed. The discarded fraction represents cell cycles not following exponential growth. In the automated analysis (Glycerol auto) an additional 14% of cycles are discarded because of a failed origin tracking. $r$ stands for Pearson correlation, and the $m-d$ superscript indicates a mother-daughter correlation. The doubling time (1/$\lambda$) is obtained by fitting the distribution of growth rates with a log-normal distribution.

Experiment	Discarded %	# cell cycles	${\displaystyle 1/\lambda [min]}$	Adder r	${\displaystyle {\lambda }^{m-d}\mathrm{r}}$	${\displaystyle L_b^{m-d}\mathrm{r}}$
Glycerol auto	3.3	3070	86.0	−0.10	0.33	0.45
Glycerol	2.1	810	89.0	−0.07	0.42	0.58
Glucose	2.1	1035	53.0	−0.04	0.47	0.66
Glucose +AA	2.4	1159	41.0	−0.12	0.36	0.48