SCOPE: Siamese Contrastive Operon Pair Embeddings for Functional Sequence Representation and Classification

arXiv:2605.11022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying operons is a fundamental step in understanding prokaryotic gene regulation, as classifying genes into operons supports the reconstruction of regulatory networks, functional annotation of unannotated genes, and drug candidate development. Experimental approaches such as RT-PCR and RNA-seq provide precise evidence of operon structure, but are laborious and largely limited to well-studied model organisms, making scalable computational me