Phinch is an open-source framework for visualizing biological data, funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio in Oakland, CA, and biological researchers at UC Riverside.
This issue was reported by a user on the Google Group forum - we should look into this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phinch/cRNIp0GKeYA