The idea of transforming gene expression data into a network graph based on correlation measures is not new 17,18,19,20.

Node-centric expression models (NCEMs): Graph-neural networks reveal communication between cells Peer-Reviewed Publication. Helmholtz Munich (Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum ...

While in graduate school at MIT, Ramesh worked with Shah on building AI for tabular data — data that’s organized in a table with row and columns, like a database — using large graphical models.