LI-COR, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets instruments, software, reagents, and integrated systems for plant biology, biotechnology, life sciences, drug discovery, and environmental research customers. Its products include imaging systems, such as fluorescence and animal imaging systems, and DNA analysis systems; blot reagents, including in-cell reagents, protease assay reagents, IRDye reagents, genomics reagents, animal imaging agents, optical imaging reagents, and other reagents; and SMARTFlux System, an instrument for calculating the exchange of gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor between the land or water surface and the atmosphere. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.