Table 1 The state space of a system with n molecular species x j and N microstates s i . n i (x j ) denotes the copy number of molecular species x j at state s i
Copy number | Molecule species | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  | x 1 | x 2 | … | x n |
States | s 1 | n 1(x 1) | n 1(x 2) | … | n 1(x n ) |
|  | s 2 | n 2(x 1) | n 2(x 2) | … | n 2(x n ) |
|  | … | … | … | … | … |
|  | s N | n N (x 1) | n N (x 2) | … | n N (x n ) |