Alastair Kilpatrick
Bioinformatician

Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 9550
- Email: alastair.kilpatrick@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Institute for Regeneration and Repair
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh BioQuarter
5 Little France Drive - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UU
Background
- Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London (2022-present)
- Bioinformatician at Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh (2017-present)
- Postdoctoral Associate at University of California, San Diego (2014-2017)
- PhD in Informatics, University of Edinburgh (2014)
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Brain matters: Unveiling the Distinct Contributions of Region, Age, and Sex to Glia diversity and CNS Function
In:
Acta Neuropathologica Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-023-01568-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Protocol to analyze and validate transcriptomic changes in PDGFRβ-KO mesenchymal stem cell osteogenic potential in the mouse embryo
In:
STAR Protocols, vol. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2022.102016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Senolytic treatment preserves biliary regenerative capacity lost through cellular senescence during cold storage
(16 pages)
In:
Science Translational Medicine, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abj4375
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
p57Kip2 regulates embryonic blood stem cells by controlling sympathoadrenal progenitor expansion
In:
Blood, vol. 140, pp. 464-477
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2021014853
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
PDGFRβ+ cells play a dual role as hematopoietic precursors and niche cells during mouse ontogeny
In:
Cell Reports, vol. 40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111114
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Characterizing domain-specific open educational resources by linking ISCB Communities of Special Interest to Wikipedia
In:
Bioinformatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac236
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Human biliary epithelial cells from discarded donor livers rescue bile duct structure and function in a mouse model of biliary disease
In:
Cell Stem Cell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2022.02.006
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Failures of nerve regeneration caused by aging or chronic denervation are rescued by restoring Schwann cell c-Jun
In:
eLIFE, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62232
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
TWEAK/Fn14 signalling promotes cholangiocarcinoma niche formation and progression.
In:
Journal of Hepatology, vol. n/a, pp. 1-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2020.11.018
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Ten simple rules for designing learning experiences that involve enhancing computational biology Wikipedia articles
In:
PLoS Computational Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007868
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The International Society for Computational Biology and WikiProject Computational Biology: celebrating 10 years of collaboration towards open access
(2 pages)
In:
Bioinformatics, vol. 33, pp. 2429-2430
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx388
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
The 5th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: Coming to a Classroom Near You?
In:
PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005235
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
Message from the ISCB: The 5th ISCB Wikipedia competition: coming to a classroom near you?
In:
Bioinformatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw671
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
Applying, Evaluating and Refining Bioinformatics Core Competencies (An Update from the Curriculum Task Force of ISCB's Education Committee)
In:
PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 12, pp. e1004943
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004943
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Dizzy-Beats: a Bayesian Evidence analysis tool for systems biology
In:
Bioinformatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv062
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Stochastic EM-based TFBS motif discovery with MITSU
(9 pages)
In:
Bioinformatics, vol. 30, pp. 310-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu286
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
MCOIN: a novel heuristic for determining transcription factor binding site motif width
(12 pages)
In:
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-7188-8-16
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)