Bio-Rad Laboratories Israel Inc develops and markets software products for the life sciences and clinical diagnostics systems. It was established in Israel in 1991 as the sales branch. In 2006, with the acquisition of ProteOptics Ltd, a developer of surface plasmon resonance technology, a research and development center was opened and renamed Bio-Rad Haifa. The R&D activities span from the development of reagents and kits to the design and engineering of analytical devices and instrumentations. These activities serve a wide spectrum, covering almost the entire proteomics research workflow for the scientific, biotech, and pharma communities