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Coarse-Grain Modelling Strategies

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In this chapter, the computational coarse-grain modelling strategies are discussed. Besides, different coarse-grained models (CGMs) will be described.

The chapter aims to introduce the computational coarse-grain modelling strategies.

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Kamberaj, H. (2023). Coarse-Grain Modelling Strategies. In: Computer Simulations in Molecular Biology. Scientific Computation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34839-6_7

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