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 tsv in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to tsv" (how).
Let your AI agent convert Affymetrix CEL to TSV
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 TSV”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to tsv"
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 TSV?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.cel -c "convert to tsv" 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 tab-separated values (TSV) file is a simple text format for storing data in a tabular structure, e.g., database table or spreadsheet data, and a way of exchanging information between databases.
