researchers around the globe are gathering biomedical information at a massive scale. we develop algorithms to compress this data that enable computation on the reduced representation. in this talk, i will discuss how we can leverage the low-dimensional true structure of biological data manifolds in order to build useable compact geometric summaries of this data. i will highlight our latest work on single-cell transcriptomic datasets, that enables an unprecedented scale of data to be effectively pooled from individuals and institutions across nations to enable novel life-saving discoveries.