Biomass Composition
| Metabolite | mmole g DW | Metabolite | mmole g DW |
| Amino acids(Oura 1972) | Mannan | 0.808 | |
| Other carbohydrates | 1.135 | ||
| Alanine | 0.459 | Ribonucleotides(Oura 1972) | |
| Arginine | 0.161 | AMP | 0.046 |
| Asparagine | 0.102 | CMP | 0.045 |
| Asparate | 0.298 | GMP | 0.046 |
| Cysteine | 0.007 | UMP | 0.060 |
| Glutamine | 0.105 | Deoxyribonucleotides(Vaughan-Martini and Martini 1993) | |
| Glutamate | 0.302 | ||
| Glycine | 0.290 | DAMP | 0.004 |
| Histidine | 0.066 | DCMP | 0.002 |
| Isoleucine | 0.193 | DGMP | 0.002 |
| Leucine | 0.296 | DTMP | 0.004 |
| Lysine | 0.286 | Lipids(Nurminen et al. 1975), Sterols (Hunter and Rose 1972), | |
| Methionine | 0.051 | Phospholipids (Kaneko et al. 1976), Fatty acids (Schulze 1995) | |
| Phenylalanine | 0.134 | ||
| Proline | 0.165 | Triacylglycerol | 0.007 |
| Serine | 0.185 | Ergosterol | 0.001 |
| Threonine | 0.191 | Zymosterol | 0.002 |
| Tryptophane | 0.028 | Phosphatidate | 0.001 |
| Tyrosine | 0.102 | Phosphatidylcholine | 0.006 |
| Valine | 0.265 | Phosphatidylethanolamine | 0.004 |
| Carbohydrates(Schulze 1995) | Phosphatidylinositol | 0.005 | |
| Phosphatidylserine | 0.002 | ||
| Glycogen | 0.519 | ||
| Trehalose | 0.023 |
[i] (Schulze 1995) Details on the calculation of the biomass equation can be found under http://www.cpb.dtu.dk/models/yeastmodel.html andhttp://geneticcircuits.ucsd.edu/organisms/yeast.html.