VenusGenome: Genome-Aware Masked Autoencoding for Microbial Genome Representation Learning
Liang Zhang, Yukun Zhang, Yang Tan, Fan Jiang, Bozitao Zhong, Xiaoran Cheng, Liang Hong, Mingchen Li, Yuanxi Yu
VenusGenome improves microbial genome representation learning by using a genome-aware masked autoencoder, achieving high performance in phenotype prediction and gene-level tasks.
bioRxiv · Oct 27, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics