Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Cel file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to dta in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to dta" (how).
Let your AI agent convert Affymetrix CEL to DTA
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the Affymetrix CEL files in my Downloads folder to DTA”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to dta"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert Affymetrix CEL to DTA?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to dta" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
An Affymetrix CEL file holds the probe intensities of one GeneChip microarray scan: for every probe cell its x and y position, intensity, standard deviation and pixel count, as the v4 binary GCOS format or the older v3 text format. The data behind gene-expression analyses; GEO distributes these files, usually gzipped.
A DTA file is a Stata dataset: a data table with variable names, types, display formats, variable labels and value labels, written by the Stata statistics package. The same extension is also used by Zeiss BIVAS for its image files.
