Multispecies phase diagram of biofilm architectures reveals biophysical principles of biofilm development

Hannah Jeckel1, 2, Francisco Diaz-Pascual3, Dominic J Skinner4, Boya Song4, Eva Jimenez-Siebert2, Eric Jelli3, Sanika Vaidya3, Jörn Dunkel4, and Knut Drescher2

1Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany
2Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
3Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany
4Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, MA, USA

[Link to paper (bioRxiv 2022)]

Datasets from article:

Each table contains xyz coordinates of each cell in a biofilm. The first column contains x-, the second y-, the third z-coordinates. All coordinates are listed in µm. Coordinates for different biofilms are stored in different tabs of the file.

  • Data from Escherichia coli biofilms: file.
  • Data from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms: file.
  • Data from Salmonella enterica biofilms: file.
  • Data from Vibrio cholerae WT biofilms: file.
  • Data from Vibrio cholerae mutant biofilms: file.
  • Data from simulated biofilms: file.