Gnome (GenomeNet Open Mail-service Environment) is a sequence analysis tool that enables an end-user to make use of several Internet- (mainly e-mail) based services with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. Users can conduct homology and motif searches, and database-entry retrieval against the latest databases by emitting search requests to and receiving their results form a search-server by e-mail. The search results are viewed and managed efficiently with this system. The Macintosh and X (Motif) versions of the Gnome client and the UNIX version of the Gnome server are available to academic users free of charge.