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Optimal algorithm selection for high-dimensional, small multi-omics datasets also remains a persistent challenge. We present a machine learning framework that extends the QTG-Finder feature set by integrating transcriptomic and proteomic features to classify drought-responsive genes in rice. Using MBKBase annotations, we evaluated the ability of these models to prioritise 336 drought-responsive genes among 2,416 abiotic stress-associated genes, of which the remaining 2,080 constituted an operational background set. We tested four algorithms: Random Forest, XGBoost, one-dimensional convolutional neural network, and multilayer perceptron, while addressing severe class imbalance and assessing model stability. Tree-based ensemble methods achieved higher performance than the deep learning models in this dataset, which showed early overfitting. 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