I am running growth curves on a BioTek Plate reader using Gen5 software. Kinetic analysis of bacterial growth (OD=600) is output as raw OD data and VMax of the blanked OD data. How does VMax relate to growth rate (k) and doubling time (g)? Is VMax the logarithmically scaled data and thus = to the growth rate? OR is there another data transformation that needs to be done to calculate growth rate from VMax??