Convert Affymetrix CEL to parquet

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 parquet in the search box.
Press Convert.

Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to parquet" (how).

Let your AI agent convert Affymetrix CEL to PARQUET

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

Or add it in one click:

Claude Code:

claude mcp add filestar -- npx -y [email protected] mcp

Then ask your agent:

“Convert the Affymetrix CEL files in my Downloads folder to PARQUET”

Or run it yourself:

filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to parquet"

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 PARQUET?

Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to parquet" on your computer, so your files stay on it.

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What is the difference between Affymetrix CEL and .parquet?

Name: Affymetrix CEL; Apache Parquet File
Extension: .cel; .parquet
Format: Binary; Binary
Category: Data; Data
Developer: Affymetrix; The Apache Software Foundation
Description: 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 Parquet file is a columnar data table: each column is stored on its own, compressed and typed, so analytics tools can read only the columns they need. It is the common exchange format of data lakes, Spark, pandas and DuckDB.
MIME Type: application/octet-stream; application/vnd.apache.parquet
Sample: sample.parquet
Wikipedia: .cel on Wikipedia; .parquet on Wikipedia

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