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VenusGenome model advances microbial genome representation learning

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Researchers have developed VenusGenome, a novel gene-resolution masked autoencoder designed for microbial genome representation learning. This model incorporates genome-aware attention mechanisms to distinguish biological relationships from assembly conventions, using contig boundaries, relative strand orientations, and gene positions. Pretrained on over 1.7 million microbial genome assemblies, VenusGenome achieved superior performance on nine out of eleven primary metrics for genome-level phenotype prediction and gene-level tasks, outperforming BERT-style models. AI

IMPACT Advances representation learning for microbial genomes, potentially improving functional predictions and fitness defect analysis.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhang Liang, Zhang Yukun, Tan Yang, Jiang Fan, Zhong Bozitao, Cheng Xiaoran, Hong Liang, Li Mingchen, Yu Yuanxi ·

    VenusGenome: Genome-Aware Masked Autoencoding for Microbial Genome Representation Learning

    arXiv:2611.05405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Genomic-context models have shown that contextualizing protein embeddings can improve predictions of microbial function. We observe that a gene's protein embedding is partially predictable from the embeddings of neighboring genes …

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