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Recently, several machine learning-based algorithms have been proposed for predicting CPPs. However, most existing predictive methods do not consider the agreement (disagreement) between similar (dissimilar) CPPs and depend heavily on expert knowledge-based handcrafted features.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this study, we present SiameseCPP, a novel deep learning framework for automated CPPs prediction. SiameseCPP learns discriminative representations of CPPs based on a well-pretrained model and a Siamese neural network consisting of a transformer and gated recurrent units. Contrastive learning is used for the first time to build a CPP predictive model. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed SiameseCPP is superior to existing baseline models for predicting CPPs. 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