Birney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome
Velvet: algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs.
The Pfam Protein Families Database
Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project
Velvet : Algorithms for De Novo Short Read Assembly Using De Bruijn Graphs Velvet : Algorithms for De Novo Short Read Assembly Using...
Mouse genome sequencing consortium. Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution.
The InterPro database, an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites
The Ensembl genome database project.
Oases: robust de novo RNA-seq assembly across the dynamic range of expression levels.