“…Finally, path decomposition analysis unravels the association between two nodes at different time points in terms of the paths connecting them. Hereto the covariance between and for can be decomposed as a sum over all paths connecting j 1 and j 2 in the time‐series chain graph (Miok et al., ): where can be further decomposed in terms of the contemporaneous paths connecting j 1 and (see Jones and West, ). As such it guides in the search for the most important paths by which a molecular signal travels between these two nodes.…”