chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The MARTINI Force Field -- chapter 3 The Multiscale Coarse-Graining Method: A Systematic Approach to Coarse-Graining -- chapter 4 A Model for Lipid Bilayers in Implicit Solvent -- chapter 5 Coarse-Grained Dynamics of Anisotropic Systems -- chapter 6 State-Point Dependence and Transferability of Potentials in Systematic Structural Coarse-Graining -- chapter 7 Systematic Approach to Coarse-Graining of Molecular Descriptions and Interactions with Applications to Lipid Membranes -- chapter 8 Simulation of Protein Structure and Dynamics with the Coarse-Grained UNRES Force Field -- chapter 9 Coarse-Grained Structure-Based Simulations of Proteins and RNA -- chapter 10 On the Development of Coarse-Grained Protein Models: Importance of Relative Side-Chain Orientations and Backbone Interactions -- chapter 11 Characterization of Protein-Folding Landscapes by Coarse-Grained Models Incorporating Experimental Data -- chapter 12 Principles and Practicalities of Canonical Mixed-Resolution Sampling of Biomolecules -- chapter 13 Pathways of Conformational Transitions in Proteins -- chapter 14 Insights into the Sequence-Dependent Macromolecular Properties of DNA from Base-Pair Level Modeling -- chapter 15 Coarse-Grained Models for Nucleic Acids and Large Nucleoprotein Assemblies -- chapter 16 Elastic Network Models of Coarse-Grained Proteins Are Effective for Studying the Structural Control Exerted over Their Dynamics -- chapter 17 Coarse-Grained Elastic Normal Mode Analysis and Its Applications in X-Ray Crystallographic Re nement at Moderate Resolutions -- chapter 18 Coarse-Grained Normal Mode Analysis to Explore Large-Scale Dynamics of Biological Molecules -- chapter 19 One-Bead Coarse-Grained Models for Proteins -- chapter 20 Application of Residue-Based and Shape-Based Coarse-Graining to Biomolecular Simulations -- chapter 21 Coarse-Graining Protein Mechanics -- chapter 22 Self-Assembly of Surfactants in Bulk Phases and at Interfaces Using Coarse-Grain Models -- chapter 23 Coarse-Grained Simulations of Polyelectrolytes -- chapter 24 Monte Carlo Simulations of a Coarse-Grain Model for Block Copolymer Systems -- chapter 25 Structure-Based Coarse- and Fine-Graining in Soft Matter Simulations -- chapter 26 From Atomistic Modeling of Macromolecules Toward Equations of State for Polymer Solutions and Melts: How Important Is the Accurate Description of the Local Structure? -- chapter 27 Effective Interaction Potentials for Coarse-Grained Simulations of Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Solution -- chapter 28 Coarse-Graining in Time: From Microscopics to Macroscopics.