Table 1.

Numerical scales of various dimensional parameters and parameter groupings in SI units, based on patterning in synthetic pattern formation with E. coli bacterial colonies, using physical scales motivated by the studies of Grant et al. (2016) and Boehm et al. (2018)

Parameter	Range	Justification
$\widehat{L}$	$8\times {10}^{-3}$ m$-2.2\times {10}^{-2}$ m	See text
${\Vert {\widehat{\mathit{D}}}_{\mathit{S}}\Vert }_{\infty },{\Vert {\widehat{\mathit{D}}}_{\mathit{B}}\Vert }_{\infty }$	${10}^{-10}$ m${}^2$ s${}^{-1}-{10}^{-9}$ m${}^2$s${}^{-1}$	Table S8, Grant et al. (2016)
$1/\tau$	$8.4\times {10}^{-5}$ s${}^{-1}-1.0\times {10}^{-3}$ s${}^{-1}$	Tables S8, S9, Grant et al. (2016)
$H_{\epsilon }$	${10}^{-5}$ m$-{10}^{-4}$ m	See text
H	${10}^{-3}$m $-{10}^{-2}$ m	See text
$\widehat{\eta }$	Unknown	−