Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LAT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LAT to another file type
To convert LAT Templates to another format, you need Agilent OpenLAB CDS or other Settings software.
Convert a file to LAT
To convert other file formats to the "Laboratory Equipment Configuration" file type, you need software like Agilent OpenLAB CDS or a similar tool.
About LAT files
The .LAT file is primarily a Lab Automation Template file used by laboratory software such as Tecan i-control or Agilent OpenLAB CDS. These files contain workflow instructions, instrument parameters, and data analysis settings for automated liquid handling and chromatography systems. The major disadvantage of the .LAT format is its proprietary nature. These files are tightly locked into specialized, expensive laboratory ecosystems. You cannot open a .LAT file in standard web browsers or regular office software. Without the original laboratory software suite, the instructions inside the file are largely inaccessible. Under the hood, many .LAT files are structured as standard ZIP archives containing XML or plain text configuration data. Converting .LAT to ZIP allows you to extract the raw XML, TXT, or CSV data for manual review. However, converting these settings back into a different proprietary lab format is usually impossible without custom scripting. This is a closed, proprietary format. Standard online converters fail to process it because they lack the necessary laboratory parsing engines to understand the scientific data. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible on convert.guru. Our system will inspect the file, and since the underlying structure is a ZIP archive, we can often extract the internal content so you can read the embedded text instructions.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LAT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted HVC, CSV, WFE, XBW, UTM, CIR and AHD files.
FAQ
If you want to convert LAT file to UTM, CIR or AHD, you can use Agilent OpenLAB CDS or similar software from the "Laboratory Automation Workflow Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to LAT, try Agilent OpenLAB CDS or another comparable tool in the "Laboratory Automation Workflow Settings" category.
The LAT Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our LAT converter.