Read me – Data for “Pulsatile basal gene expression as a fitness determinant in bacteria” Data1 – Data from Fig. 1, Bioinformatics data Data2 – Data from Fig. 2, Microfluidics pulse analysis data Data3 – Data from Fig. 3, Microfluidics induction and growth data Data4 – Data from Fig. 4, Microfluidics pulse and growth data Data5 – Data from Fig. 5, Competition experiment and lag estimation data RawData_2_3 – Microfluidics raw data, each row represent a mother cell and each column represents a time point, images where taken every 90 seconds, total 10 hours data for each cell.