Since the development of RNTs in the early 2000s, they have been shown to be a very versatile category of nanotubes. After the initial application of targeted drug delivery by encapsulating the drugs into the hydrophobic channel, they have been subsequently shown to have promise as biosensors. As a result, there is a need to build and optimize a CG model of RNTs to explore these applications. The main objective of this project was the develop and test a CG model of a ST RNT using the MARTINI FF. We were able to develop an initial The lighter lines are the ones that do have explicit harmonic hydrogen bonds. It appears that the ST conformation without the explicit harmonic hydrogen bonds (dark green line) has the lowest RMSD, and is even comparable to the MARTINI DNA results. However, after 4 ns, the RMSD increases drastically. This behavior will need to be further examined and may lead to further optimization of the coarse-grained model of the RNT.