DESCRIPTION: Current Topics in Membranes provides a systema tic, comprehensive, and rigorous approach to specific topics relevant to the study of cellular membranes. Each volume is a guest edited compendi um of membrane biology. Articles covered in this volume include Consider ations for Lipid Force Field Development; Electrostatics in Biomolecular Simulations: Where Are We Now and Where We Are We Headed; Time and Leng th Scales in Lipid Bilayer Simulations; Molecular dynamics simulation of lipid-protein interactions; Implicit Modeling of Membranes; Blue Matter : Scaling of N-Body Simulations to One Atom per Node; Multiscale Simulat ion of Membranes and Membrane Proteins: Connecting Molecular Interaction s to Mesoscopic Behavior; Small Molecule Interactions with Lipid Bilayer s; On the nature of lipid rafts: Insights from molecularly detailed si mulations of model biological membranes containing mixtures of cholester ol and phospholipids; Atomistic and Mean Field Simulations of Lateral Or ganization in Membranes; Molecular modeling of the structural properties and formation of high-density lipoprotein particle; Gas Conduction of L