UI considerations

As I delve deeper and deeper into the development, it’s natural that I’ll uncover new questions and important considerations. Here they are, presented in list format:

• Standalone vs. web-based: While a web-based system offers convenience (no install, etc.), it limits the processing power and memory capacity to that of the server which houses the system.
• Outputs: Apart from the normal GBA outputs– either a LCR-masked sequence or a list of the locations of LCRs– what data should the UI collect/present? The ratio of LCRs to the rest of the sequence? Suspected LCRs?
• Representation: What representation, graphical or otherwise, best sums the information output by the algorithm into one, palatable whole?
• Method of representation: Which tools will be used to build the mechanism for representation? Java applets? Java Web Start? HTML/XML?